From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 11 21: 1:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta04.mail.mel.aone.net.au (mta04.mail.au.uu.net [203.2.192.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 496A837B416 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 21:01:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au ([203.166.66.104]) by mta04.mail.mel.aone.net.au with ESMTP id <20011212050115.KFZH16349.mta04.mail.mel.aone.net.au@ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au>; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 16:01:15 +1100 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20011212155823.01e40590@pop.ozemail.com.au> X-Sender: rbyrnes@pop.ozemail.com.au X-Mailer: I wish it was Linux Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 16:01:12 +1100 To: Donnie Jones From: Rob B Subject: Re: IPF, IPFILTER, IPFW ? What's the difference? Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20011212044159.41215.qmail@web20607.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 At 15:41 12/12/2001, Donnie Jones sent this up the stick: >Hey you guys. > >I've just got my FreeBSD 4.4 gateway working, and all >is good so far, but I am interested in setting up a >firewall on the pc. > >I think I understand that IPF and IPFILTER are the >same thing, right? No, but similar. >And, IPF and IPFW are both programs that can be used >for firewall set up on FreeBSD. Yup >So, I ask you, what is the difference? Is one a >replacement for the other? or what? Sort of ... IPFW is part of the core FreeBSD OS, IPF has to be compiled from ports. IPF runs as-is in userspace, and can be compiled into the kernel, whereas IPFW runs in the kernel only >Also, and good docs you can point me to would be >wonderful. http://www.obfuscation.org/ipf/ - home of lotsa docs on IPF, and the FreeBSD handbook for IPFW info. there is also some stuff on IPFW at www.onlamp.com (part of O'Reilly's pages) Cheers, Rob -- Early to bed and early to rise makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes. [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian This is random quote 374 of a collection of 1192 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message