From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 10 20: 3:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.rdc3.on.home.com (ha1.rdc1.tn.home.com [24.2.7.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C54CE37B804 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:03:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from williamsl@home.com) Received: from RELIABLE ([24.4.115.31]) by mail1.rdc3.on.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000711030355.CVCA11295.mail1.rdc3.on.home.com@RELIABLE>; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:03:55 -0700 Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 23:03:42 -0400 From: Ben Williams X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.39) Personal Organization: Williams Enterprises X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <19960.000710@home.com> To: Larry Rosenman Cc: Carlton Haycock , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: ipfilter vs ipfw In-reply-To: <200007110020.e6B0K9U23644@lerami.lerctr.org> References: <200007110020.e6B0K9U23644@lerami.lerctr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Will ipmon(8) not do the type of logging you need? --Ben Williams mailto:received@email dot com Quoting Larry Rosenman Monday, July 10, 2000 > Seems that IPFilter does BETTER stateful rules than a "hack" (a friends term) > to IPFW to do dynamic rules. >>From running ipfw for a short time, I've converted over to ipfilter. > I just wish the rc* scripts supported ipfilter better, and that there > was some standard reporting mechanism for the logging output like there > is for ipfw. > Larry Rosenman >> >> 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message