From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 1 11: 7:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A9F815024 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 11:07:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA03550; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:07:13 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:07:13 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "Scott I. Remick" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipfw vs. MS Proxy Message-ID: <19990601130713.A3289@dan.emsphone.com> References: <4.2.0.56.19990601135626.034fa010@mail.computeralt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.5i In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.56.19990601135626.034fa010@mail.computeralt.com>; from "Scott I. Remick" on Tue Jun 1 14:02:11 GMT 1999 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jun 01), Scott I. Remick said: > I just had a meeting where I got thrown a curve ball I wasn't > expecting. There is talk of wanting to drop in an MS Proxy server > onto our network. I started arguing from the seat of my pants about > wanting to use ipfw instead. Well, I managed to keep any final > decision from being reached, but I was hoping that someone more > experienced with the products might be able to offer some comparisons > and arguments. That way, I can go back with more hard-core facts and > sway the decision. ipfw is packet filtering, not proxying. For that you probably want squid and/or natd. Exactly what are the advertised features of MS Proxy, and what are the features you are looking for? -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message