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Date:      Thu, 27 Jul 2000 11:50:46 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Siobhan Patricia Lynch <trish@bsdunix.net>
To:        Nick Evans <nevans@nextvenue.com>
Cc:        "'freebsd-security@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: ipf or ipfw (was: log with dynamic firewall rules
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSO.4.21.0007271149310.3504-100000@superconductor.rush.net>
In-Reply-To: <712384017032D411AD7B0001023D799B07CA70@sn1exchmbx.nextvenue.com>

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I'm not sure, never tried it, I *know* it works with OpenBSD which would
be my choice if using ipf anyway.

-Trish

__

Trish Lynch
FreeBSD - The Power to Serve 		trish@bsdunix.net
Rush Networking				trish@rush.net

On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Nick Evans wrote:

> It wouldn't work with ipf, period. IPF doesn't support bridging in FreeBSD
> 4, no? or is your bridging in reference to something else?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Siobhan Patricia Lynch [mailto:trish@bsdunix.net]
> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 11:31 AM
> To: Darren Reed
> Cc: Reinoud; Gerhard Sittig; freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: ipf or ipfw (was: log with dynamic firewall rules)
> 
> 
> I'm not saying that ipf is bad, in fact, prior to keep-state and
> check-state in ipfw, I used ipf quite a bit.
> 
> again, *some* people here know who I work for, but the networking going
> into sites looks like this:
> 
> cisco (non-stateful) -> freebsd bridging ipfw -> arrowpoint web content
> switch -> clusters
> 
> ipfw works quite well, but wouldn;t in this situation prior to freebsd 4.0
> 
> if theres something absolutely amazing in the next version if ipf that
> makes my life hella better at work, I'll use it ;)
> 
> as it is, I'm using OpenBSD/IPSec to tunnel and bridge packets from exodus
> to the office (well not quite yet, but we have the go ahead on that
> project) , which is irony, those who know who I am will agree ;)
> 
> -Trish
> 
> __
> 
> Trish Lynch
> FreeBSD - The Power to Serve 		trish@bsdunix.net
> Rush Networking				trish@rush.net
> 
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Darren Reed wrote:
> 
> > In some mail from Siobhan Patricia Lynch, sie said:
> > > 
> > > I actually use ipfw for everything, I can;t see any real advantage to
> > > ipfilter in a situation that we're using it for (some people know
> > > where I work)
> > > 
> > > ipfilter has to be flushed and reloaded, I don;t have that luxury
> > > 
> > > ipfw I can add rules on the fly.
> > 
> > You can do that with ipfilter too.
> > 
> > In fact, ipfilter allows you to make complete ruleset changes, on the
> > fly with 0 security risk (i.e. there is no gap of "half your rules
> > being in place").
> > 
> > Even at bootup, you can go from "no rules, default = block" to
> > "full ruleset" and not have any packets slip between the cracks
> > as various lines get added to allow/deny things.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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