Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 11:04:24 +0100 From: Dr Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> To: paul+usenet@w6yx.stanford.edu Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What is your favourite/best firewall on FreeBSD and why? Message-ID: <FE050654-7AE7-4E5D-B191-9A620B9D61AD@tao.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <lln2o2$77d$1@usenet.ziemba.us> References: <20140520070926.GA92183@The.ie> <lln2o2$77d$1@usenet.ziemba.us>
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--Apple-Mail=_F5F0CDF2-5FB8-489D-B079-29EE305A4500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 23 May 2014, at 10:00, G. Paul Ziemba <pz-freebsd-stable@ziemba.us> = wrote: > Lucius.Rizzo@The.ie (Lucius Rizzo) writes: >=20 >> 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? >=20 > I switched to pf about seven months ago as I began to need to > manage bandwidth for specific classes of traffic (for example, > prevent outbound mailing list email from saturating the link > and reserve some bandwidth for interactive use). >=20 > The syntax is very close and the NAT configuration is simpler in pf. Does the pfsync handle NAT tables. Could I use it to build a resilient carrier grade NAT solution? Joe --Apple-Mail=_F5F0CDF2-5FB8-489D-B079-29EE305A4500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJTfx0oAAoJEGdCjs+EVN/YbCoH/00r8mTvTlnxyg8Tadt++ndf 3cXlDss4BupLAnklVs4zE6mk2aNP+cjgr40PDo03xklVCm1gUJTNodKuNqTifrJa m7Cub4wIh8oGVD36p/8coNLa98azuvxTnc3hCE5YOU/5M4m5xByXWu0Y9J7XNwNk WZsfvevqjV6NneKk5hCssLei9KkI9tJ0aBU3mW0Zib2bGrmXL+HLSLhlNBVJ7ypg WLL0UUdTx/+YAyXl7Rt2K7Zk4wpeMcEFiw/6iKzZ1phRDkZsPUd0nstmI+so96vi Nh37w9iAn8KdYXj8dKmylrw0/EHggXaenCvX90WJCjtXGZQ5BLo9pjDsDGNQdrc= =U+2A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_F5F0CDF2-5FB8-489D-B079-29EE305A4500--
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