Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 23:43:29 +0100 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@nitro.dk> To: Coercitas Temet'Nosce <coercitas@hotmail.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPFilter Message-ID: <20030210224328.GD798@nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <000601c2d155$02a665c0$807ba8c0@XG396.local> References: <3E479EF4.4060008@tcoip.com.br> <000601c2d155$02a665c0$807ba8c0@XG396.local>
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On 2003.02.10 23:37:36 +0100, Coercitas Temet'Nosce wrote:
> Yes, SPI stands for Statefull Packet Inspection. Wasn't aware IPFW was a
> SPI Firewall, always thought IPFilter was much better. I used to run
> iptables on Linux and tried IPFilter (which is very good imho). IPFW
> pages aren't that explicit or I didn't looked at the right place.
From ipfw(8) :
HISTORY
The ipfw utility first appeared in FreeBSD 2.0. dummynet(4) was intro
duced in FreeBSD 2.2.8. Stateful extensions were introduced in
FreeBSD 4.0. ipfw2 was introduced in Summer 2002.
> Any of you can point me some nice pages to learn more about it ?
The ipfw manpage has a lot of information...
This is getting off-topic for current...
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Simon L. Nielsen
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