From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 17 2:21:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FF6A37B401 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 02:21:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b026.otenet.gr [195.167.121.154]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f8H9LQd23561; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:21:27 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f8H8eO706526; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 11:40:24 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 11:40:23 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Brett Glass Cc: Jason Anthony Mifsud , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipfw and ipf and pf Message-ID: <20010917114023.C5577@hades.hell.gr> References: <20010914232949.A45136@FATE> <20010914232949.A45136@FATE> <20010915140313.A45993@hades.hell.gr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010917003434.046f6490@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010917003434.046f6490@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:45:39AM -0600 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass wrote: > At 05:03 AM 9/15/2001, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > >Both ipf and ipfw can be a descent firewall. They have similar features, and > >what can be done in one of them, is also possible with the other for more or > >Less all their features. There is on thing that I know ipfw does, which ipf > >cannot handle, and that it 'pipes'; a means of bandwidth-limiting. > > True. However, to be fair, the other BSDs do provide different > facilities for bandwidth limiting. I didn't know that, having played very little with other BSDs. Thanks, Brett :) -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message