Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 10:35:23 +0200 From: Rolf Nielsen <rmg1970swe@gmail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is your favourite/best firewall on FreeBSD and why? Message-ID: <537C654B.1010205@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAPS9%2BSs0=wkBuNO4=H3Gt7mVor9hVpN4f_EVQ_Ywga_Z1c2UaA@mail.gmail.com> References: <20140520070926.GA92183@The.ie> <4341ADF1-E684-4531-8DD0-10107E097D68@punkt.de> <CAPS9%2BSs0=wkBuNO4=H3Gt7mVor9hVpN4f_EVQ_Ywga_Z1c2UaA@mail.gmail.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-05-21 10:22, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Patrick M. Hausen > <hausen@punkt.de> wrote: > >> Hi, all, >> >> Am 20.05.2014 um 09:09 schrieb Lucius Rizzo >> <Lucius.Rizzo@The.ie>: >>> Ultimately, outside configuration differences all firewalls >>> are >> essentially >>> serve the same purpose but I wonder what is your favorite and >>> why? If you were to run FreeBSD in production, which of the >>> three would you choose? IPFilter, PF or IPFW? >> >> IPFW since it was first introduced. It's the standard one, works, >> and I don't miss anything. >> >> Kind regards Patrick >> > > IPFW for me as well. > > pf has nice features, but has a tendency to crash if one enables > things like vimage. > > I haven't tried IPFilter in FreeBSD, I only tried it on > opensolaris. > > Best regards Andreas IPFW for me too. It was what was availabe when I first started using a firewall, and it does what I want, so I see no reason to switch. Rolf -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (FreeBSD) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTfGVKAAoJEB1OKfQ0M8TgVF0QANBFld1gXC3fTa3fYGz+rfpD wy40AzEHLlxOgNMzI515CVG+PEyfK0nsktXTehp3ORxCHICONMZLMLq5aKLgCv5D IiOzsbfqY865ku5CG9GiLh757l5erZjlY1SQ5IStwwKhP9aS9f3tUITP4SQc5z7Q NA7tcuLZNqhtVvxKBcSzpePWQPYfcdOTdrMuwqc0pjvORZPRExJ0ttlmGELarF4Z J4O3OZCikJCn/H9+yHjretuv4R80JXBjwQxZUyZPE8lZiB/eHkJmBsCer7K8dByK bANlJqni1otXr4HAy8ReiZ0YY6aPAfAKKo5fhcS5+CrE08nn+nOqtVeB5X2lLrWY koaA++UtgUqS9//UoFo74h/Tmo7L6JWLwp44hSEegO18HlS1dTiMMW+gBa00lc8W DrtYkLAterhFtjCap5mg1tRLX4ZpBh/zE/jRzjZCIenxXVTvuh1ZXS6qq46l1qST iH3O7ZklnRi8soajfrOJgpP2/YcEFOtbUF/rQel958KImljKvSYpX1wLSyYuWP7v 6BEVcJ/0E4ndXdnz6R3tYa5DidoKUkgs5UhrMKTgoHiX4aTe6+aY3jT9QRDGNibK bWgB7bFYMCIGet9DE5dyXhJ9eVo96qTfbWirK/uzP1xo7IXm+n40gbvZMA3kRTHJ IPhaFJgfn/OVeoFAlBKK =7d70 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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