From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Jul 9 15:27:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp10.atl.mindspring.net (smtp10.atl.mindspring.net [207.69.200.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0A3F37B9E6 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 15:27:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chaycock1@mindspring.com) Received: from CHaycock (user-37ka80e.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.32.14]) by smtp10.atl.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA03678 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 18:26:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200007092226.SAA03678@smtp10.atl.mindspring.net> From: "Carlton Haycock" To: "newbies@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 18:34:16 -0400 Reply-To: "Carlton Haycock" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;5) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: ipfw versus ipfilter Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, I am in the process of building a firewall using FreeBsd. I am aware of the firewall built into the kernel (ipfw), but I also see alot of people talking about another package called IPFILTER. I have seen comments stating that IPFILTER is better, but no one has yet to say why or why they prefer it. I would be most appreciative if someone could give a brief overview of the differences as far as functionality is concerned. I have read the how-to's and stuff on FreeBsd Diary but can find nothing that does a comparison of the two. Thanks, Carlton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message