Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:14:16 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Firewalls Message-ID: <05B6619C-9771-41EA-B43E-05DB40CB3258@lafn.org>
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FreeBSD supports 3 firewalls: IPF, IPFW, and PF. Some time ago (perhaps years) I seem to recall some discussion that one or more of those was better maintained and higher quality than the others. I don't see any indications of this in the handbook. Several years ago I needed to do traffic shaping and used IPFW with dummynet. It worked but the need eventually went away. More recently I needed to incorporate spamd which defaults to PF so I used that. However, now I am back to needing traffic shaping again. I suspect trying to use both PF and IPFW simultaneously will not be a good approach. In addition, there now are instructions for using spamd with IPFW so it appears that either PF or IPFW will do what I need. Is there any additional information available to assist in selecting between those? Thanks.
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