From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 9 8:48:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.tripos.com (gatekeeper.tripos.com [192.160.145.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4545237C4F3 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 08:48:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scoles@tripos.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tripos.com (SMI-8.6) id KAA26333 for <@firewall.tripos.com:questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 10:48:45 -0500 Received: from unknown(172.20.5.15) by gatekeeper.tripos.com via smap (V5.0) id xma025075; Fri, 9 Jun 00 10:40:42 -0500 Received: from volga ([172.20.152.76]) by tripos.com (980919.SGI.STAND) via SMTP id KAA75020 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 10:40:40 -0500 (CDT) From: "Steve Coles" To: Subject: Relative merits of IPFIREWALL and IPFILTER Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 16:40:13 +0100 Message-ID: <0f4a01bfd229$00605ab0$4c9814ac@volga.TRIPOS.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At first glance, ipfilter and ipfirewall seem to offer similar things, yet they are distinct (?) What are the relative pros and cons of these kernel features. Apologies / pointer needed if this has been discussed before. Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message