Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 10:38:07 +0200 (CEST) From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Differences between IPF and IPFW Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005121030470.421-100000@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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Dear Sirs. I'm struggling around with some problems in building up a firewalling system with two NICs. The main problem is, how to "gate" all IP packets from on NIC to the other and filter them. FreeBSD comes with two kernel-options, IP_FIREWALL and IPFILTER. I do not know what are the differences between both options and the documentation ist rather poor! Please let me know which one of this options is the most powerfull and fastest ans so the first choice. At this moment, I took some tests with ipfw and it was really frustrating how much info I can obtain how to build a firewall with two NICs with this package. Nothing about how to route or gate packets, nothing about how to configure the system to be a multihomed host ... the usual problems for a newbie. Well, does anybody have some informations about the differences about IPF and IPFW, weak points or strong points of each package (complexicity is not of my focus, the system must be fast and really flexible and should work with two NICs). Thanks in advance, Gruss O. Hartmann ------------------------------------------------------------------- ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de Klimadatenserver des IPA, Universitaet Mainz Netzwerk- und Systembetreuung To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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