From owner-freebsd-security Wed Mar 27 6:40:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from usermail0.netnitco.net (usermail0.netnitco.net [216.176.128.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2D3937B41B for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 06:40:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from mypc (goatmilk.thing.nu [216.176.156.116]) by usermail0.netnitco.net (8.11.4/8.10.1/052400) with SMTP id g2REeoS75709 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 08:40:50 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <00e801c1d59d$2b463e10$4400000a@nitco.com> Reply-To: "Josh Snyder" From: "Josh Snyder" To: Subject: NAT / Firewall Question Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 08:39:14 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am going to be setting up a box to do NAT with my Ameritech ADSL (Alcatel SpeedTouch USB modem) and I was wondering if there was any reason that I should use FreeBSD with ipfw/ipfilter ( I don't really know the difference) rather than Linux with iptables? I fully admit that I haven't really researched the two options throughly and I've only setup a very basic one rule NAT configuration for my friend. I was hoping that you all may have some insight as to why or if FreeBSD makes a better NAT / Firewall box. Thanks, --Josh Snyder To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message