Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 13:23:19 -0400 From: "Maine LOA List Admin (Brent Bailey)" <brentb@loa.com> To: "Henrik Holmstam" <turbo@lamering.org>, "Kenneth Wayne Culver" <culverk@wam.umd.edu> Cc: "Alfatrion" <alfatrion@cybertron.tmfweb.nl>, "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: IPFW or IPFILTER? Message-ID: <008f01c15342$964a8e60$24b4a8c0@pretorian> References: <20011012185458.K69352-100000@darkwing.turbo.net>
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good question ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henrik Holmstam" <turbo@lamering.org> To: "Kenneth Wayne Culver" <culverk@wam.umd.edu> Cc: "Alfatrion" <alfatrion@cybertron.tmfweb.nl>; "Maine LOA List Admin (Brent Bailey)" <brentb@loa.com>; "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>; <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 12:56 PM Subject: Re: IPFW or IPFILTER? > > Can IPFW keep state on UDP and ICMP as IPFilter can? > > > On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > > 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-stable" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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