From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 29 8:15:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mukappa.home.com (c576194-a.saltlk1.ut.home.com [24.20.97.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1246137B69B for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 08:15:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from mukappa.home.com (jqdovs@localhost.home.com [127.0.0.1]) by mukappa.home.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f0TGE1l27421; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:14:01 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from mupi@mknet.org) From: Mike Porter Reply-To: mupi@mknet.org To: Erwan Arzur , =?iso-8859-1?q?Jo=E3o=20Fernandes?= Subject: Re: IPF vs ipfw? Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:14:01 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <01012808071600.15005@OpsyDopsy.net.dhis.org> <3A74F29D.1C68CF8F@netvalue.com> In-Reply-To: <3A74F29D.1C68CF8F@netvalue.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01012909140106.10681@mukappa.home.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 28 January 2001 21:33, Erwan Arzur wrote: > Joćo Fernandes wrote: > > Could some one please enlighten me on the subject IPFilter Versus ipfw? > > What the pros and cons may be? > > Or if this topic has already been way discussed, could I be given an URL > > to go and read the discussions? > > > I've been using it for one year now, switching from ipfw because of its > dynamic rules (keep state) feature which was not available in ipfw at > this time. Now, it's exteremely difficult to give some pros and cons on > any such sensible package without starting a flamewar :-) > not to mention that it has been discussed several times here on this list <(}: > More discussion about this topic can be found on the > security@freebsd.org archives, on www.freebsd.org. The freebsd-stable archives on www.freebsd.org (http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists is a good place to go to search the archives for all the FreeBSD mailing lists at FreeBSD.org) also have discussion on this topic. mike -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.3 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjp1lskACgkQZ7GovTQbIm4ZNwCfRMR9EwnGz0YiyFYN+nsJP/Cl oo4An2QvUyaFbflC/5PUrIASQRdhP34+ =OQYp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message