Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 22:38:16 -0700 From: Emmanuel Gravel <mailinglistseg@earthlink.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: What exactly is ipfilter? Message-ID: <1070602696.3909.9.camel@hades>
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I'm looking through rc.conf and the kernel config file for FreeBSD 4.9 (recently downloaded it, my last upgrade was 4.5 so I was way behind, and this is a new install because my old firewall died). I'm used to using ipfw and natd for my firewall, but now I'm seeing ipfilter, ipnat and ipmon. I've done a google search on all of www.freebsd.org for ipfilter, but it only seems to show up in release notes, and the online handbook doesn't really talk about it. Since I haven't recompiled my new kernel, should I consider this instead of ipfw and natd? What's the difference, exactly? On a related note, I'm not sure what the usefulness of IPDIVERT is either, so I don't know if I should compile it in the kernel or not. Thanks!
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