From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 10 17:42: 2 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9815B37B401 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 17:42:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from grassmarket.ucs.ed.ac.uk (grassmarket.ucs.ed.ac.uk [129.215.166.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6896543FE0 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 17:41:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from s9905155@sms.ed.ac.uk) Received: from fourtytwo.gamesoc (12266209.resnet.ed.ac.uk [10.6.0.100] (may be forged)) by grassmarket.ucs.ed.ac.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h1B1fmh02986; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 01:41:48 GMT Received: from fourtytwo.gamesoc (localhost.gamesoc [127.0.0.1]) by fourtytwo.gamesoc (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1B1hmYE002286; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 01:43:48 GMT (envelope-from bruce@fourtytwo.gamesoc) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by fourtytwo.gamesoc (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h1B1hmV6002285; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 01:43:48 GMT Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 01:43:47 +0000 From: Bruce Cran To: "Coercitas Temet'Nosce" Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RE : IPFilter Message-ID: <20030211014347.GA2135@fourtytwo.gamesoc> References: <20030210224328.GD798@nitro.dk> <000f01c2d155$d384db40$807ba8c0@XG396.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000f01c2d155$d384db40$807ba8c0@XG396.local> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 11:43:27PM +0100, Coercitas Temet'Nosce wrote: > Yes, kinda :p > > Thanx for all your answers btw > Are you getting confused between ipfw in Linux and ipfw in FreeBSD maybe? When I first saw ipfw I thought it must be old and obsolete, because it's been around for a long time, whereas Linux has had lots of different firewalls, with ipfw being in 2.0, ipchains in 2.2 and ipfilter in 2.4. ipfw in FreeBSD is just like ipfilter in Linux - it too can do connection tracking, and just like while in Linux you've got iptables in the user-space and ipfilter in the kernel, in FreeBSD there's ipfirewall in the kernel and ipfw is the user-space control program. I don't know much about firewalling in FreeBSD since I've not been using it all that long, but from what I understand, ipfw has taken over from ipf as the main firewalling system. -- Bruce Cran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message