Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 14:05:26 +0700 (WIT) From: Dwi Suharto <ald72007@akakom.ac.id> To: Emmanuel Gravel <mailinglistseg@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What exactly is ipfilter? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0312051403480.9879-100000@ns.akakom.ac.id> In-Reply-To: <1070602696.3909.9.camel@hades>
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On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Emmanuel Gravel wrote: > I'm looking through rc.conf and the kernel config file for FreeBSD 4.9 > (recently downloaded it, my last upgrade was 4.5 so I was way behind, > and this is a new install because my old firewall died). I'm used to > using ipfw and natd for my firewall, but now I'm seeing ipfilter, ipnat > and ipmon. I've done a google search on all of www.freebsd.org for > ipfilter, but it only seems to show up in release notes, and the online > handbook doesn't really talk about it. Since I haven't recompiled my new > kernel, should I consider this instead of ipfw and natd? What's the > difference, exactly? > > On a related note, I'm not sure what the usefulness of IPDIVERT is > either, so I don't know if I should compile it in the kernel or not. i'm currently using ipf and ipnat for firewall. you can check this URL for ipf: http://www.obfuscation.org/ipf/ipf-howto.html#TOC_5 --- Dwi Suharto System Engineer and Computer Network Technical Support STMIK AKAKOM Yogyakarta Phone: +62-274-486664 ext. 192 Mobile: +62-8562836982 http://get.bounceme.net/
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