Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:03:36 +1000 From: Christopher Vance <vance@nu.org> To: ipfilter@cairo.anu.edu.au, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD ipfw vs. ipfilter Message-ID: <19991006130336.E87124@nu.org>
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ipfw is part of FreeBSD by default. ipf[ilter] is available for FreeBSD and a number of other OSs. I use FreeBSD at home, have used it at work, but also co-administer a Solaris 2.7 SPARC on a different continent. Both machines need to be isolated to some extent from their ISP, because I don't trust them (or their ISPs) to know what they're doing. Currently I'm using ipf (for the last six months?) on FreeBSD because I wanted to check it out before installing it on the Solaris machine, since I have no console access to recover from any medium-to-big blunder. Previously I used ipfw for over a year. I wonder if either list could give me some objective recommendations for the future. (I trust that invective has no place here...) -- Christopher Vance To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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