From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 2 21:18:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp012.mail.yahoo.com (smtp012.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 15BBD37B405 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 21:18:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unknown (HELO cheech.uchaswv.edu) (12.4.161.204) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 Oct 2001 04:18:17 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 00:26:55 -0400 From: Nathan Mace To: freebsd-questions Subject: firewall question Message-Id: <20011003002655.3649aa61.nmace85@yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.2 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i know there are a number of unix firewalls out there...ipfw, ipfilter just to name a few....but are there any of them that are considered "better" than the rest....in any way. from a technical standpoint..or ease of writeing rules. also is there one that runs on all of the BSD's and linux?? or is each one made for a certain OS? thanks nathan _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message