Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 09:13:59 -0500 (EST) From: rohit@cs.umd.edu To: security@freebsd.org Subject: Which Firewall : ipfw or ipfilter? Message-ID: <199701021413.JAA09309@darling.cs.umd.edu>
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Hi, I need to set up a firewall on a FreeBSD 2.2 BETA machine and was trying to decide between ipfw and ipfilter. Various messages in the 'archive' around August 14 suggest that ipfw is 'klunky' and badly documented. Is that still the case? The man page is dated July 20, 1996. Does it still apply to ipfw on the 2.2 branch. On the other hand the ipfilter page suggests that ipfilter goes up only to 2.1.5 currently. Is a version for 2.2 coming anytime soon? Is one of ipfw and ipfilter accepted to be 'the' FreeBSD firewall today? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks --rohit.
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