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Date:      Tue, 26 Sep 95 10:58:24 PDT
From:      "Ugen J.S.Antsilevich" <ugen@latte.worldbank.org>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   IpFw vs IpFilter vs IpFirewall 2.0
Message-ID:  <Chameleon.4.00.4.950926110501.ugen@ugen>

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Hi guys.

I just ended looking into Ipfirewall 2.0 and Ipfilter 2.7.XXX (whatever version 
is last accessible from the web page:).

So my idea on topic is as following:
1) As i noticed in my last mail IpFirewall 2.0 has IP options functionality
which ipfw has not.
2) Same applies to IpFilter.
3) There is no any other difference in functionality which present in 
both those filters and lacks in ipfw.
4) There is a lot of things like ipacct, automatic sorting of rules etc. which 
are part of ipfw and has no compatible features in others.
 So i am not thinking of changin ipfw to any of those two and i don't think 
doing so by anybody else would be wise move:)
 On the contrary i am going to add ipoptions features in the next two weeks so 
that ipfw will gain more functionality then both other filter packages.
My plans are far beyond what any other filtering package for today can do (or
even planning as far as i understand).

Thank you. *IMHO*
--Ugen




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