Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 17:12:12 +0100 From: Peter McGarvey <Peter.McGarvey@telinco.net> To: FREEBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Q: IPFIREWALL or IPFILTER? Message-ID: <3966015C.FCDCD1F5@telinco.net>
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In building a new kernel, I can add support for IPFIREWALL and IPFILTER. What I'd like to know is what's the difference? And which is better? And is both a bad idea? The only firewalls I've ever dealt with are of the packet filtering sort built into routers. But now I'm playing with a FreeBSD box with 3 NICs so it seems like a good time to learn a bit more about firewalls. Discovering that FreeBSD supports two I went looking for some sort of comparison between the two. But couldn't find anything. Hence, the above questions. -- TTFN, FNORD Peter McGarvey, Unix Administrator Network Operations Center, Telinco Limited To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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