From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 1 18: 0:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from geocities.com (mail8.geocities.com [209.1.224.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E6B237BEEA for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 18:00:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from arnee@geocities.com) Received: from geocities.com (mg136-092.ricochet.net [204.179.136.92]) by geocities.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA22308 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 18:00:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38BDCCF1.312F2D3B@geocities.com> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 18:07:45 -0800 From: arnee X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: ipfw & ipf, ppp & pppd, natd & ipnat... differences? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG this is some what of a broad question, but out of curiosity... what are the differences between these programs? or rather, which one do you use? which one do you prefer and why? or when to use one over the other? ppp's filtering vs ipfw, ipf? what about bpf? natd vs ipnat? ppp vs pppd? tcp wrapper vs identd -wW? which one would you use with what (e.g. ppp with ipnat or pppd with ipf... etc.) or are they all interchangeable? comments, thoughts, ideas? or other programs used similar to the above? -- arnee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message