From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 15 4:54:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from [209.239.36.156] (host2.hostmatters.com [209.239.36.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DB6837B401 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 04:54:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from nhqadmin17 (224host88.redcross.org [162.6.224.88]) by [209.239.36.156] (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f1FCs3D32391; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 07:54:03 -0500 Message-ID: <009101c0974e$8ff909c0$6102a00a@nhqadmin17> From: "Ben" To: , References: Subject: Re: ipfw or ipf Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 07:55:21 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm a newbie here but for what I know and seen here, yes you can use ipf. FreeBSD supports this. You will have to enable it in /etc/rc.conf or /etc/defaults/rc.conf. The first is a better choice I'm told. Sorry I can't answer the last question b/c I don't know it myself. Good question though. Ben ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne Pascoe" To: Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 3:53 AM Subject: ipfw or ipf > Hi there, > > I'm not throwing firewall rules onto my shiny new bsd box. From what > I've read, ipfw is the tool for freebsd. Can I use ipf? The reason > that I ask this is that I use ipf on my Solaris and my OpenBSD boxen, > and I know the syntax already. > > 1. Is this possible? > > 2. What are the downsides to using ipf over ipfw ? > > Thanks, > > -- > - Wayne Pascoe > E-mail: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk > Phone : +44 (0) 20 7544 4668 > Mobile: +44 (0) 788 431 1675 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message