From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 28 6:18:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A4E637B402 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 06:18:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 27871 invoked by uid 0); 28 Jan 2001 14:17:19 -0000 Received: from p3ee2160e.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO speedy.gsinet) (62.226.22.14) by mail.gmx.net (mail07) with SMTP; 28 Jan 2001 14:17:19 -0000 Received: (from sittig@localhost) by speedy.gsinet (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA06377 for stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 08:23:18 +0100 Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 08:23:18 +0100 From: Gerhard Sittig To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ipnat vs natd and ipf vs ipfw (fwd) Message-ID: <20010128082318.U253@speedy.gsinet> Mail-Followup-To: stable@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from oys@powertech.no on Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 07:20:16PM -0500 Organization: System Defenestrators Inc. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 19:20 -0500, Espen Oyslebo wrote: > > Ipfw and ipf to my eye (without glasses that is) seem to do > pretty much the same thing. The same is true for ipnat and > natd. Of course there are differences between the two (ritgh?). > > If so: > What are they? This has been hashed over a few hundred times in the lists. You might want to visit the archives. > Currently, I have ipfw and natd doing their job fairly well. Is > there any point in switching (yeah,yeah, don't fix it if it > ain't broken). Exactly! If it works for you, why would you want to risk it? If you feel like something's missing, what is it? Then check if ipf could do it for you. virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message