From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 4 12:15:13 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 12:15:10 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from www3.infolink.com.br (www3.infolink.com.br [200.255.108.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD42E37B400 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 12:15:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from diala11 (unverified [200.255.108.11]) by www3.infolink.com.br (Vircom SMTPRS 4.2.181) with SMTP id ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 18:15:06 -0300 Message-ID: <00dd01c05e2e$e42a0700$0b6cffc8@infolink.com.br> From: "Antonio Carlos Pina" To: "O. Hartmann" Cc: References: Subject: Re: IPFIREWALL or IPFILTER? Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 18:15:02 -0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4029.2901 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4029.2901 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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" To: Cc: 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