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Date:      Tue, 14 Dec 2004 02:05:34 +0100
From:      Kees Plonsz <kees@jeremino.homeunix.net>
To:        dave <dmehler26@woh.rr.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: just a couple quick pf/nat questions
Message-ID:  <20041214010537.B449E43D1F@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
References:  <list.freebsd.questions#20041213203548.GC69026@keyslapper.org> <list.freebsd.questions#000801c4e172$a9e49df0$0400a8c0@satellite>

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dave wrote:

> Hi,
>     I use to use ipf under pre-5.3. NOw i have switched to pf for various
> reasons. I have not as of yet deployed it on my router, but i will be
> doing so. In looking it over, i do not believe pf needs nat_enable it does
> all it's nats within the pf.conf file.
> HTH
> Dave.
> 
Why are there three ways of filtering and natting ip-packets ?
ipfw - This is how my router is working at the moment
ipf  - I am just reading and testing this, looks nice
pf   - looks the same as ipf 

They all have stateful filtering and nat. What should I chose ?



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