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From: "Maine LOA List Admin (Brent Bailey)" <brentb@loa.com>
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Subject: Re: IPFW or IPFILTER?
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 10:18:46 -0400
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I tried IPFILTER for awhile ...and it very easy to use...but ..in my opinion
it isnt as configurable as IPFW.
IPFW is a little more to setup ...but still pretty easy ...and the syntax
isnt that hard to understand. Its best feature is its VERY
configurable...and as long as you keep logging to a minimum ...it doesnt use
alot of resources.
Seems its memeory intensive than anything ...running a firewall that is

Brent
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From: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 9:46 AM
Subject: IPFW or IPFILTER?


> Hello.
>
> Please do not understand this question as a question of what I believ in,
> it is simply a question of what to use for best performance.
>
> FreeBSD uses two filtering systems, ipfw and ipfilter and each of these
> both systems has its own adavantages and disadvantages. ipfilter seems to
> be more sophisticated in how to write rules.
> At the moment, we use ipfw around here due to the easy rule syntax. But
> that is not that what should be the main argument. I want to ask for the
> performance, mean the throughput/bandwith. Does anyone know something
> about the bandwith of both filters? What are the pro and contras?
>
> Thanks,
> Oliver
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