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Date:      Fri, 27 Nov 2020 08:29:16 +0000
From:      tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   firewall choice
Message-ID:  <X8C43AprLKhr3xxy@rpi4.local>

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Hi,

What's the "best" [1] choice for firewalling these days, in the list's opin=
ion?

There's pf, ipf and ipfw. Which is the one being most recently developed/up=
dated?
I'm used to using pf, have done for over a decade. But OpenBSD's pf has div=
erged=20
a lot more from when it first came across. There seems to be a lot more opt=
ions.
Is FreeBSD's pf being actively developed still?

ipfw seems a lot more syntatically complex than pf. Is it more capable also?
I know nothing about ipf yet.

[1] up-to-date, versatile, low overhead, high throughput, IPv6-able,
traffic shaping/queueing

thanks,
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J.

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