From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 7 9:12:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from telinco.net (internal.mail.telinco.net [212.1.128.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2072537BED1 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 09:12:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Peter.McGarvey@telinco.net) Received: from pilchards.telinco.net ([212.1.128.253] helo=telinco.net) by telinco.net with esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 13Aajc-000DaZ-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2000 17:12:12 +0100 Message-ID: <3966015C.FCDCD1F5@telinco.net> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 17:12:12 +0100 From: Peter McGarvey Reply-To: Peter.McGarvey@telinco.net Organization: Telinco X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FREEBSD-Questions Subject: Q: IPFIREWALL or IPFILTER? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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