Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 22:39:22 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> To: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipf vs. ipfw ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010082235080.3908-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> In-Reply-To: <20001008224359.R31338@speedy.gsinet>
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On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Gerhard Sittig wrote: >- are you already familiar with one of the languages, do you > already use one or the other? i.e. how much work is it for you > to use "the other" or is either one the first effort you spend? Just to interject a brief comment, one of the main strongpoints of ipf as I see it is that it is multiplatform. This is nice because if your firewall dies, you can pull a box from just about anywhere, maybe reconfigure the hardware a bit, and drop in your existing ipf rules, regardless of what OS that box is running. For instance, if you had a FreeBSD firewall running ipf and it died, you could easily pull the linux/irix/openbsd/netbsd/etc box out of the cube down the hall and not have to spend time rewriting your rules. Whereas stuff like ipchains, ipfw, and other similiar solutions mean you have to have the same OS at all times. Brandon D. Valentine -- bandix at looksharp.net | bandix at structbio.vanderbilt.edu "Truth suffers from too much analysis." -- Ancient Fremen Saying To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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