Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 01:16:37 -0800 From: Chris <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: firewall choice Message-ID: <2653d213518332070e63e2c8e6ec7a4f@bsdforge.com> In-Reply-To: <X8C43AprLKhr3xxy@rpi4.local> References: <X8C43AprLKhr3xxy@rpi4.local>
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On 2020-11-27 00:29, tech-lists wrote: > Hi, > > What's the "best" [1] choice for firewalling these days, in the list's > opinion? I can't speak for the whole list. ;-) But in my opinion with tables totaling over 150 million IPs. I'm casting a vote for pf(4). It's wildly easy on resources and as fast and flexible as I could ever hope to want. Started using it years ago, and never looked back. :-) > > There's pf, ipf and ipfw. Which is the one being most recently > developed/updated? > I'm used to using pf, have done for over a decade. But OpenBSD's pf has > diverged a > lot more from when it first came across. There seems to be a lot more > options. > Is FreeBSD's pf being actively developed still? Yes. It is actively developed. > > 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, --Chris
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