From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 9 12:13:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from draenor.org (draenor.org [196.36.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 618AB37B5C8 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 12:13:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcs@draenor.org) Received: from marcs by draenor.org with local (Exim 3.14 #1) id 130UC5-000New-00; Fri, 09 Jun 2000 21:11:49 +0200 Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 21:11:49 +0200 From: Marc Silver To: Roelof Osinga Cc: Steve Coles , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Relative merits of IPFIREWALL and IPFILTER Message-ID: <20000609211149.C81376@draenor.org> References: <0f4a01bfd229$00605ab0$4c9814ac@volga.TRIPOS.COM> <39413FFB.85A522F6@nisser.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <39413FFB.85A522F6@nisser.com>; from roelof@nisser.com on Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 09:05:31PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG errr, nope. :) ipfw can handle stateful stuff :) Cheers, Marc On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 09:05:31PM +0200, Roelof Osinga wrote: > Steve Coles wrote: > > > > 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. > > The short answer is that ipf handles state which ipfw does not. > > Roelof > > -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message