From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 23 04:10:56 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B508B37B401 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 04:10:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 79A6043FCB for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 04:10:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blueeskimo@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 27115 invoked by uid 65534); 23 Apr 2003 11:10:54 -0000 Received: from i216-58-29-174.gta.igs.net (EHLO [216.58.29.174]) (216.58.29.174) by mail.gmx.net (mp015-rz3) with SMTP; 23 Apr 2003 13:10:54 +0200 From: Adam To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <001b01c30984$f25add00$2900a8c0@teatern> References: <001b01c30984$f25add00$2900a8c0@teatern> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-lJifoQqYDjVp/5iOBsIi" Organization: Message-Id: <1051096253.88928.13.camel@jake> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 23 Apr 2003 07:10:53 -0400 Subject: Re: User comments: ipfw or ipfilter. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:10:57 -0000 --=-lJifoQqYDjVp/5iOBsIi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 06:41, andre thomasson wrote: > Im new at this, and this is my first contribution to this great mailingli= st. :-) >=20 > My problem is that i really cant decide wich type of firewall i shall use= , by reading this mailinglist, and the FreeBSD handbook i realize that Ipfw= is some kind of defactostandard in the FreeBSD world. >=20 > But in otherhand, friend=B4s to me is pointing that IPFILTER is a better = choice. > ( yes i know that it depends on my ruleset how secure the firewalls will= be ) > Im so confused, plese let me know your thoughts about this. While I don't know ipfw all that well, I have been using ipf since my days (not so long ago) as a fresh green FreeBSD newb. I've never had any problems with it, either in terms of configuration difficulties or at runtime. It's even helped fight off a massive DDoS attack very nicely. Note that I'm not casting a vote for ipf here, I'm just informing you of my positive experiences. --=20 Adam --=-lJifoQqYDjVp/5iOBsIi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+pnS9u3o4GBMSDL4RAma9AKCSpgN6Db8MVqh9oOmoewAJ/Yc42ACglo4s mpZsambldrpg1hlEbyFE6DU= =28QC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-lJifoQqYDjVp/5iOBsIi--