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Subject: Re: What is your favourite/best firewall on FreeBSD and why?
From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>
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Hi, all,

Am 20.05.2014 um 09:09 schrieb Lucius Rizzo <Lucius.Rizzo@The.ie>:
> Ultimately, outside configuration differences all firewalls are =
essentially
> serve the same purpose but I wonder what is your favorite and why? If
> you were to run FreeBSD in production, which of the three would you
> choose? IPFilter, PF or IPFW?

IPFW since it was first introduced. It's the standard one, works, and I
don't miss anything.

Kind regards
Patrick
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