From owner-freebsd-security Fri Aug 23 1:37:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D67937B400 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 01:37:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.crypton.pl (ns.crypton.pl [195.216.109.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C089E43E3B for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 01:37:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mailman@mail.crypton.pl) Received: (qmail 39950 invoked by uid 1017); 23 Aug 2002 08:37:14 -0000 Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 10:37:14 +0200 From: Nomad To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firewalls on FreeBSD( ipfw vs ipf) Message-ID: <20020823083714.GA39848@killer.crypton.pl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm using ipfw and I'am very happy with that. You can do almost everything with that. If you want to use traffic shaper from dummynet remember, that only ipfw supports that. I don't know, if divert is supported by ipf to. And divert sockets can be very useful tool. I tried few times to configure my firewall on ipf, but every time I have returned to ipfw. Maybe because it's the one I know very well... It's will be nice to me hear something intresting about ipf advantages. I'm using ipfw. But which one you'll choose it's very your decision. Regards Nomad On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 01:54:43PM +0200, Conrad Burger wrote: > Hi all > > > > I need some help on deciding which firewall I should use to secure my > intranet from the internet. > > > > I cannot decide which way to go , IPF or IPFW ! > > > > Which one is recommended , easiest to configure and support. > > > > Can anyone please point me to some information explaining the difference > between IPFW and IPFW2. > > > > A document on IPFW vs IPF would also help. > > > > Thanks > > Conrad > -- Nomad Poznan, Poland To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message