Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 23:10:13 -0600 (MDT) From: FreeBSD <freebsd@XtremeDev.com> To: Hervey Wilson <herveyw@dynamic-cast.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ipfw vs. ipfilter Message-ID: <20010401230933.I13647-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com> In-Reply-To: <00db01c0bb31$78966e10$0101a8c0@chillipepper>
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This question has been asked and answered quite extensively in this mailing list. Please check the archive (searchable on www.freebsd.org/search) for the results of those discussions. On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Hervey Wilson wrote: > Being new to FreeBSD and needing a firewall and NAT, I'm presently using > ipfw and natd. I've also been looking at some of the documentation for > ipfilter and ipnat (in particular the ipf-howto @ obfuscation.org). Having > been through the documentation for both it's not clear to me whether I > should consider switching over to ipfilter. One specific requirement I have > is that the NAT services can support the GRE protocol needed for MS-PPTP > tunneling - this works nicely right now with natd. > > Does anyone have any comments on this topic that might shed some light on > which method is best under different circumstances ? Is ipfilter the "next > generation" packet filter technology like ipchains (now iptables) was on > Linux ? Or are they just different ways of achieving the same thing ? > > Thanks in advance, > Hervey. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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