From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 1 22:10:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.XtremeDev.com (xtremedev.com [216.241.38.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27F2C37B719 for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 22:10:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@XtremeDev.com) Received: by mail.XtremeDev.com (Postfix, from userid 1008) id 05EFA5B97; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 23:10:13 -0600 (MDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.XtremeDev.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBBFF1C9B4; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 23:10:13 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 23:10:13 -0600 (MDT) From: FreeBSD To: Hervey Wilson Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: ipfw vs. ipfilter In-Reply-To: <00db01c0bb31$78966e10$0101a8c0@chillipepper> Message-ID: <20010401230933.I13647-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This question has been asked and answered quite extensively in this mailing list. Please check the archive (searchable on www.freebsd.org/search) for the results of those discussions. On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Hervey Wilson wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message