Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:09:52 +0000 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: routing problem Message-ID: <20071124180952.46f84f63@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <2949641c0711240741i24ef2a1cj46c2ba0f5a33fd38@mail.gmail.com> References: <2949641c0711240434m71fbbc0fj73c7af80f88bad6d@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.1071125003422.18465A-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> <2949641c0711240741i24ef2a1cj46c2ba0f5a33fd38@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 13:41:51 -0200 "Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto" <alaorneto@gmail.com> wrote: > 2007/11/24, Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>: > > > > No I didn't mean that; use your own favourite packet filter, any of > > them can handle what you've described. Bill suggested pf - lots of > > people seem to like it a lot - and I use ipfw because I (mostly) > > know how to. > > > I always had linux servers, so I'm very familiar with iptables, I > don't have a favorite BSD firewall yet, so that's why I'm asking. I > choose ipfilter because I liked the tutorial in the FreeBSD handbook, > but I don't know any features of the others, I even don't know > ipfilter yet. IPFilter was OpenBSD's old firewall, but because of its restrictive licence PF was developed and IPFilter was dropped from OpenBSD. The two firewalls use a very similar syntax. Unless you have a good reason to use IPFilter, it's probably better to start with PF, the documentation on the OpenBSD site is pretty good.
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