From owner-freebsd-security Thu Oct 29 10:05:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA24269 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:05:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from witch.xtra.co.nz (witch.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA24248 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:05:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-87.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.87]) by witch.xtra.co.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id HAA15512; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 07:03:08 +1300 (NZDT) Message-Id: <199810291803.HAA15512@witch.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: Open Systems Networking Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 07:03:17 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: IPFW problems... Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199810291000.FAA24396@mail.webspan.net> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 29 Oct 98, at 5:10, Open Systems Networking wrote: > Darren If I had a dime everytime you have said this the above :-) > While going through the mail archives youll see darren reply to posts > about problems with ipfw and him declaring that ipfw is junk and to > install ipfilter and your problems go away. :-) Darren you really know how > to advocate a peice of code you should be our mascot for advocacy. Well, that's what prompted me to try IP Filter. > I will > try ipfilter for another firewall box im setting up. I like alot of the > cool stuff, proxy support etc.. Although I think ipfw does that not to > unless im mistaken, but there is no harm in trying them both. So ill give > ipfilter a shot next time around. If you do, maybe http://www.freebsddiary.com/freebsd/ipfilter.htm will help. If it does, good! If it doesn't, please tell me where it misled you or whatever. cheers. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - my [mis]adventures http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message