Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 07:03:19 -0600 From: Dan Busarow <dan@buildingonline.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Future of pf / firewall in FreeBSD ? - does it have one ? Message-ID: <53DB9017.3000304@buildingonline.com> In-Reply-To: <CALfReyerXQm6ehhtKXcJ9XD5fr=0LBShtD8EAUjd9p07xcQvjw@mail.gmail.com> References: <53C706C9.6090506@com.jkkn.dk> <6326AB9D-C19A-434B-9681-380486C037E2@lastsummer.de> <53CB4736.90809@bluerosetech.com> <201407200939020335.0017641F@smtp.24cl.home> <788274E2-7D66-45D9-89F6-81E8C2615D14@lastsummer.de> <201407201230590265.00B479C4@smtp.24cl.home> <20140729103512.GC89995@FreeBSD.org> <53DA304E.6020105@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20140731134147.GH2402@glebius.int.ru> <CALfReyerXQm6ehhtKXcJ9XD5fr=0LBShtD8EAUjd9p07xcQvjw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 8/1/14, 1:39 AM, krad wrote: > I always found natting in ipfw rather awkward and harder than in pf. > Looking at the man page it doesnt seem to have changed. I should probably > give it another go though as it has been about 10 years now Couldn't be much easier than the way it works now e.g. firewall_enable="YES" firewall_type="OPEN" natd_enable="YES" natd_interface="em0" natd_flags="-s -m -u" All of the builtin rulesets know about NAT My home network has two internal nets each with it's own wifi AP and the above handles it. natd_interface is your outside facing interface. Dan > > > On 31 July 2014 14:41, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 10:02:22PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: >> D> Without diminishing your efforts so far, what do you think about >> D> pitching all efforts into IPFW to combine effort and reduce overhead of >> D> maintaining separate firewalls in the core? Is there an advantage to >> D> having our own pf? >> >> Is there any disadvantage keeping it? It is a plugin. It is optional >> and loadable. I removed most additions to the network stack that live >> outside netpfil/pf. >> >> Some people like it and use it. >> >> It is also the only tool to configure ALTQ now. >> >> -- >> Totus tuus, Glebius. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >> freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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