Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 21:57:51 -0700 From: "Hervey Wilson" <herveyw@dynamic-cast.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: ipfw vs. ipfilter Message-ID: <00db01c0bb31$78966e10$0101a8c0@chillipepper>
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Being new to FreeBSD and needing a firewall and NAT, I'm presently using ipfw and natd. I've also been looking at some of the documentation for ipfilter and ipnat (in particular the ipf-howto @ obfuscation.org). Having been through the documentation for both it's not clear to me whether I should consider switching over to ipfilter. One specific requirement I have is that the NAT services can support the GRE protocol needed for MS-PPTP tunneling - this works nicely right now with natd. Does anyone have any comments on this topic that might shed some light on which method is best under different circumstances ? Is ipfilter the "next generation" packet filter technology like ipchains (now iptables) was on Linux ? Or are they just different ways of achieving the same thing ? Thanks in advance, Hervey. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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