From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 9 12: 5:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c1870039.telekabel.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2389237BEA2 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 12:05:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA02318; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 21:05:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <39413FFB.85A522F6@nisser.com> Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 21:05:31 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Coles Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Relative merits of IPFIREWALL and IPFILTER References: <0f4a01bfd229$00605ab0$4c9814ac@volga.TRIPOS.COM> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve Coles wrote: > > At first glance, ipfilter and ipfirewall seem to offer similar things, yet > they are distinct (?) What are the relative pros and cons of these kernel > features. The short answer is that ipf handles state which ipfw does not. Roelof -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Eboa (ingenieursburo Office Automation) web. http://eboa.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message