From owner-freebsd-security Tue Aug 21 9: 3:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail.webmonster.de (datasink.webmonster.de [194.162.162.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BFDD437B403 for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:03:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from karsten@rohrbach.de) Received: (qmail 69094 invoked by uid 1000); 21 Aug 2001 16:02:49 -0000 Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 18:02:49 +0200 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" To: "Carroll, D. (Danny)" Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipf / ipfw Which to use? Message-ID: <20010821180249.U45276@mail.webmonster.de> Mail-Followup-To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" , "Carroll, D. (Danny)" , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG References: <98829DC07ECECD47893074C4D525EFC311563C@citsnl007.europe.intranet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gn1ylXQ+YRNuZICZ" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <98829DC07ECECD47893074C4D525EFC311563C@citsnl007.europe.intranet>; from Danny.Carroll@mail.ing.nl on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:34:36AM +0200 X-Arbitrary-Number-Of-The-Day: 42 X-URL: http://www.webmonster.de/ X-Disclaimer: My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my employer X-Work-URL: http://www.ngenn.net/ X-Work-Address: nGENn GmbH, Schloss Kransberg, D-61250 Usingen-Kransberg, Germany X-Work-Phone: +49-6081-682-304 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --gn1ylXQ+YRNuZICZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Carroll, D. (Danny)(Danny.Carroll@mail.ing.nl)@2001.08.21 11:34:36 +0000: > I've been playing with both of these and I was wondering why are both > available? > They *seem* to do almost the same thing although ipfw is much more > *tweakable*... >=20 > What's the difference between the two and how should I decide which I > should be using...? it's a matter of flavour :-> i prefer ipfilter, especially the logging (using daemontools' multilog at my site's firewalls) they perform equally, but IMVHO ipfw lacks the advanced instrumentations of ipfilter (see ipfstat(8), ipmon(8)) > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ATTENTION: > The information in this electronic mail message is private and > confidential, and only intended for the addressee. Should you > receive this message by mistake, you are hereby notified that > any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or use of this > message is strictly prohibited. Please inform the sender by > reply transmission and delete the message without copying or > opening it. >=20 uh-oh, that's not a matter of flavour. will you sue me now for reading this mailing list? ;-) /k --=20 > Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is = no. KR433/KR11-RIPE -- WebMonster Community Founder -- nGENn GmbH Senior Techie http://www.webmonster.de/ -- ftp://ftp.webmonster.de/ -- http://www.ngenn.n= et/ karsten&rohrbach.de -- alpha&ngenn.net -- alpha&scene.org -- catch@spam.de GnuPG 0x2964BF46 2001-03-15 42F9 9FFF 50D4 2F38 DBEE DF22 3340 4F4E 2964 B= F46 Please do not remove my address from To: and Cc: fields in mailing lists. 1= 0x --gn1ylXQ+YRNuZICZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7goYpM0BPTilkv0YRAkUzAKCSFSfOdfryR/Qt5ZrDyT9GPxhbegCfdBEl +T8tfLqR7r+qRKR1VGlPYT8= =Afl2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gn1ylXQ+YRNuZICZ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message