From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 8 19:49:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.rdc3.on.home.com (mail1.rdc3.on.home.com [24.2.9.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9064837B503 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 19:49:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cr132542a ([24.112.55.238]) by mail1.rdc3.on.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20001009024936.KAAZ25343.mail1.rdc3.on.home.com@cr132542a>; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 19:49:36 -0700 From: "Dennis Forbes" To: "matthew zeier" , Subject: RE: ipf vs. ipfw ? Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 22:52:50 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20001008025913.A29388@intelenet.net> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG While I can't comment too much on ipfw, when I first decided to learn and experience FreeBSD it was after reading a couple of very good articles about IPF and the superbly written how to at http://www.obfuscation.org/ipf/. Because of this I have never used IPFW (though as I'll mention shortly this isn't meant to slander IPFW). Instead as an absolute complete newbie to FreeBSD I grabbed FreeBSD and installed it on a Celeron "450"a with 64MB of RAM and a 5.2 GB HD. I copied over generic and based upon some lint settings configured my new kernel for IPF and recompiled. After reading the docs (and I'm very impatient so we're talking a gloss-through) I got a very robust, very powerful firewall/NAT solution going with IPF. This message is not meant to at all diminish IPFW : I have 0 experience with IPFW. However while IPF is oft touted as not being as integrated, etc, I can say that it compiled in and works beautifully and easily. My CPU load through my cable modem under a single users load averages 0.0%. I'm extremely happy. Of course a lot of that is happiness to do with how superb FreeBSD is too. Anyways I apologize if I'm weaving here, but I guess at the outset I had the same question : Which is "better"? I knew I wanted to set up a firewall and FreeBSD was going to host it so I had to pick between IPFW and IPF. I picked IPF mostly randomly however it was easy for a newbie to install and it works great. Cheers! > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of matthew zeier > Sent: October 8, 2000 5:59 AM > To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: ipf vs. ipfw ? > > > > Can anyone tell me the differences between ipf and ipfw ? Which is > "better" ? > > - mz > > -- > matthew zeier - "There ain't no rules around here. We're trying to > accomplish something." - Thomas Edison > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message