Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:25:37 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ipfw vs. ipf on a freebsd router Message-ID: <20061018152537.GA23544@gothmog.pc> In-Reply-To: <20061018151141.85327.qmail@simone.iecc.com> References: <20061018151141.85327.qmail@simone.iecc.com>
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On 2006-10-18 15:10, John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote: > I'm putting together a freebsd router to sit between my LAN and a T1. > The current router (still running BSD/OS) uses BSDI's ipfw, but that > died when BSDI did. It's about as simple a routing job as one could > ask, a T1 with a static address to a LAN with a static /24. > > I have a whole bunch of packet filtering rules on the current router > to keep out nasty stuff based partly on port numbers but also a couple > of hundred IP ranges from the SBL and elsewhere. I have enough IP > addresses that I do not need to NAT. > > What are the relative merits of freebsd's ipf and ipfw? It looks like > either can do the filtering I need to do. Any reason to choose one > over the other? For what it's worth, IPFW is also available on FreeBSD. I don't know how different the BSDi version of IPFW was, but it may be easier to use FreeBSD's IPFW -- at least at first. If reducing the pain of a transition from BSD/OS to FreeBSD is a worthy goal, I would recommend IPFW :) > While I'm at it, should I turn on netgraph or just use the regular > network stuff? Not necessarily. Do you really need it?
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