Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:58:29 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: David Alanis <canito@dalan.us> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Christopher Cowart <ccowart@rescomp.berkeley.edu> Subject: Re: confusion configuring NAT Message-ID: <20080319205829.GA71718@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20080319155112.fmd1lzn688w8c4s8@mail.dalan.us> References: <18401.29043.824662.173177@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <200803191516.59344.josh@tcbug.org> <20080319202159.GI39509@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> <20080319155112.fmd1lzn688w8c4s8@mail.dalan.us>
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On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 03:51:12PM -0500, David Alanis wrote: > Being I am a newcomer to freeBSD, on my first install google turned up a > how to for getting my box on the Internet as a firewall/DHCP/DNS server. > Since, I've been learning the packet filtering program (pf). Everytime I > read a question on ipfw I quickly get confused. > > What are the major advantages one over the other? I hope not to sound > biased but pf seems more user friendly, easier to implement, and less > verbose? Ipfw is much older than pf, so for many years the big advantage of ipfw was that it existed, while pf did not. :-) Today many people already know how to use ipfw and for them the advantage of ipfw over pf is that there is no need to learn a new system. If you are new to both ipfw and pf, there is not much reason not to use pf. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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