Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 23:22:05 -0500 From: David Noel <david.i.noel@gmail.com> To: Lucius Rizzo <Lucius.Rizzo@the.ie> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is your favourite/best firewall on FreeBSD and why? Message-ID: <CAHAXwYAZzFdqsEjA3xApZXaSZHaJR2R8XHds_aZDBcaRCGxNpQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140520070926.GA92183@The.ie>
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On 5/20/14, Lucius Rizzo <Lucius.Rizzo@the.ie> wrote: > 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? I use PF, though I've never tried IPFilter or IPFW. Years ago when I was trying to decide between the three I remember finding a number of good arguments in favor of using PF. > Also there is a lack of good interesting rule sets in the BSD realm. With > Linux, there was even a iptables rule set to prevent heartbleed. If you use > any of the firewalls, and have interesting or even optimized rule sets, I > would really like to see them :) There are a handful of PF ruleset examples available online. I gathered them, concatenated them, did some reading and made sure they made sense for my use case, then applied them. They're on my other machine though. I'll post them shortly.home | help
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