From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 29 21:33:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA28211 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 May 1997 21:33:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.cdrom.com [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA28206 for ; Thu, 29 May 1997 21:33:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from squirrel.tgsoft.com (squirrel.tgsoft.com [207.167.64.183]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA08356 for ; Thu, 29 May 1997 21:33:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 466 invoked by uid 128); 30 May 1997 04:33:16 -0000 Date: 30 May 1997 04:33:16 -0000 Message-ID: <19970530043316.465.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com> From: mark thompson To: questions@freebsd.com Subject: ipfw .vs. ipfilter Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am puzzled by ipfw and ipfilter. I am looking at ipfilter to get NAT, because i believe that ipfw provides "enough" security. q) is it true that ipfw and ipfilter are providing roughly the same function? q) if so, is there a reason to prefer one or the other? (Why does FreeBSD come with ipfw?) -mark