Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:44:35 -0500 From: "Eric Humphries" <ehumphri@gmail.com> To: "Doug Hardie" <bc979@lafn.org> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Firewalls Message-ID: <9b09889b0804271944l24f9d7a8v240017ac401bd828@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <05B6619C-9771-41EA-B43E-05DB40CB3258@lafn.org> References: <05B6619C-9771-41EA-B43E-05DB40CB3258@lafn.org>
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On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > PF supports traffic shaping via ALTQ. -- efk
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