From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 12 9:17:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po4.wam.umd.edu (po4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87C0137B401; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 09:17:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sun10pg2.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@sun10pg2.wam.umd.edu [128.8.73.20]) by po4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA16303; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 12:17:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sun10pg2.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sun10pg2.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA27513; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 12:17:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by sun10pg2.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA27509; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 12:17:25 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: sun10pg2.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 12:17:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Alfatrion Cc: "Maine LOA List Admin (Brent Bailey)" , "Hartmann, O." , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPFW or IPFILTER? In-Reply-To: <3BC700CE.8000201@cybertron.tmfweb.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Alfatrion wrote: > Maine LOA List Admin (Brent Bailey) wrote: > > > 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 > > > > I find IPF more configurable as IPFW. I don't know how to do the > folowing in IPFW: pass out quick on tun0 proto tcp from any to any keep > state. > IPFW has state keeping, but I don't think it's anywhere as easy to get it working right. Ken > Alex > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message