Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:07:50 +0200 (CEST) From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de> To: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Subject: IPFIREWALL or IPFILTER? What are the benefits of each filter? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10008291103130.446-100000@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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Dear Sirs. Using FreebSD 4.1-STABLE on our servers I'm confrontated with the need of security. I have the choice of two IP filtering facilities in FreeBSD's kernel, but can anybody tell me what are the benefits of each one? At this moment I try IPFIREWALL and it seems to be good, syntax is easy to understand, since the last revision we got a stateful filtering instance and so on. But what is about IPFILTER? At this stage I think choosing one or the other technique will be easy, the easyness of understanding syntax is not the problem, I think main focus should be on flexibility. If anyone out here can describe the differences and benefits of each firewall unit, please feel free to answer. Thanks a lot, Gruss O. Hartmann ------------------------------------------------------------------- ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de Klimadatenserver des IPA, Universitaet Mainz Netzwerk- und Systembetreuung To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ipfw" in the body of the message
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