Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 18:15:02 -0200 From: "Antonio Carlos Pina" <apina@infolink.com.br> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de> Cc: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: IPFIREWALL or IPFILTER? Message-ID: <00dd01c05e2e$e42a0700$0b6cffc8@infolink.com.br> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012031955270.59659-100000@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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Hello, I believe (sorry if I'm wrong) that you can't use DUMMYNET with IPFILTER, only with IPFW. Besides that, I've seen a lot of people saying that IPFILTER is better than IPFW (faster, more powerful, etc) Best Regards, ----- Original Message ----- From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Cc: <freebsd-firewall@freebsd.org> Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 4:59 PM Subject: IPFIREWALL or IPFILTER? > Dear Sirs. > > I asked this question prior and it's coming up again. FreeBSD comes with > two firewall systems/ IP filtering kernel facilities. At this moment we > use IPFW to filter but I saw many updates for IPF in the last period. > > Can anyone tell me the benefits of both systems? What is the real FreeBSD > native filtering code and which one is the fastest one? Maybe ist is > a foolish question, but behind this there is a lot of manitanance > stuff ... > > Thanks in advance, > > Oliver > > - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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