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Date:      Wed, 2 Mar 2005 12:57:06 +0100
From:      Albert Shih <shih@math.jussieu.fr>
To:        Stevan Tiefert <stevan@rot-1.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ipfw or pf
Message-ID:  <20050302115706.GL15179@math.jussieu.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20050302090009.R23556@mail.rot-1.de>
References:  <20050301224201.GC7469@math.jussieu.fr> <20050302090009.R23556@mail.rot-1.de>

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 Le 02/03/2005 à 09:03:23+0100, Stevan Tiefert a écrit
> 
> 
> On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Albert Shih wrote:
> 
> >
> 
> The both packef filters are maintained! pf is "ported" from OpenBSD and
> ipfw is from FreeBSD.

Great....I can continu to use ipfw....;-))

> 
> Whenever two programs two syntaxes...

Well it's not de syntaxes, I always use packet filter system (sometime on
hardware like Foundry/Cisco) where the rule is : First match first use. And
the pf use entire rules is very strange for me (I known I can use «quick»
but....well it's not the philosophy I think).

Lots of thanks for your answer.

Regards.


--
Albert SHIH
Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT)
U.F.R. de Mathematiques.
7 ième étage, plateau D, bureau 10
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Wed Mar 2 12:54:22 CET 2005



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