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Subject: Which Firewall : ipfw or ipfilter?
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Hi,

I need to set up a firewall on a FreeBSD 2.2 BETA machine
and was trying to decide between ipfw and ipfilter.

Various messages in the 'archive' around August 14 suggest
that ipfw is 'klunky' and badly documented. Is that still 
the case? The man page is dated July 20, 1996. Does it still
apply to ipfw on the 2.2 branch.

On the other hand the ipfilter page suggests that ipfilter goes 
up only to 2.1.5 currently. Is a version for 2.2 coming anytime 
soon?

Is one of ipfw and ipfilter accepted to be 'the' FreeBSD firewall
today?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

--rohit.