From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 21 14:48: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (ha1.rdc1.tn.home.com [24.2.7.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DA7937B505 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 14:48:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from RELIABLE ([24.4.115.31]) by mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000821214805.CNOQ12348.mail.rdc1.tn.home.com@RELIABLE>; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 14:48:05 -0700 Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 17:43:12 -0400 From: williamsl@home.com X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.45) Personal Organization: Williams Enterprises X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <191180538689.20000821174312@home.com> To: Rich Wales Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: ipfilter v. ipfw In-reply-To: <200008211669319.richw@wyattearp.stanford.edu> References: <200008211669319.richw@wyattearp.stanford.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have several machines which have both IP-Filter and IP-FireWall support compiled in and even using a mixture of both (bad form I know but I was lazy/tired when I was updating some rules) I've never had any stability issues with the boxes. --Ben Williams mailto:received@email dot com Quoting Rich Wales Monday, August 21, 2000 > My earlier question seems to have been lost amidst the debate about > ipfilter vs. ipfw, so please forgive my restating it. > I have a kernel (4.1-RELEASE) with both IPFIREWALL and IPFILTER support > enabled. However, I am currently using only "ipfw" commands to set up > my firewall; I'm not using any "ipf" commands at all. > Is there any reason to expect a system configured in this way will be > inherently unstable, simply because both firewall schemes have been > included in the kernel, even though only one of them is being used? > Perhaps I'll end up taking out the IPFILTER kernel support, just on > principle, but I feel the question is still worth asking. > Rich Wales richw@webcom.com http://www.webcom.com/richw/ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message