From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 10 17:14:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tisch.mail.mindspring.net (tisch.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6475637B74B for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 17:14:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chaycock1@mindspring.com) Received: from CHaycock (user-37ka80e.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.32.14]) by tisch.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA31175 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:14:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200007110014.UAA31175@tisch.mail.mindspring.net> From: "Carlton Haycock" To: "questions@freebsd.org" Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:22:02 -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: ipfilter vs ipfw Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@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-questions" in the body of the message