From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jul 27 3:28:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from cairo.anu.edu.au (cairo.anu.edu.au [150.203.224.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 422F837B6DA for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 03:28:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from avalon@cairo.anu.edu.au) Received: (from avalon@localhost) by cairo.anu.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA14610; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 20:28:01 +1000 (EST) From: Darren Reed Message-Id: <200007271028.UAA14610@cairo.anu.edu.au> Subject: Re: ipfw vs ipfilter To: kellysm_2k@yahoo.com (Shawn Kelly) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 20:28:01 +1000 (Australia/NSW) Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000726140337.10891.qmail@web5103.mail.yahoo.com> from "Shawn Kelly" at Jul 26, 2000 07:03:37 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In some mail from Shawn Kelly, sie said: > > I'm new to FreeBSD and I have a couple of questions regarding firewalls. > > What are the major differences between ipfw and ipfilter? ipfilter is semi-platform independant, ipfw is freebsd specific. ipfilter logging is via a character device, ipfw uses kernel syslog. ... > Is one better than the other? Why? Does it depend on the situation? ipfw is marginally better for freebsd because it supports all the freebsd specific hacks - not that this buys you anything wonderful in terms of filtering. ipfilter is generally considered to be the "leading" public domain packet filtering package and I try to ensure it stays that way :-) For example, the state tracking code in IP Filter is still without an equal. If you are *serious* about your security you wouldn't use ipfw (by serious I mean not for home/small company use, where physical security is recognised, etc). > Which one is receiving more development time? heh that's a weird question to ask. I should add that if YOU feel it is important then YOU should add some worth to them by donating some of your time. someone should really do a web page that talks about the differences :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message