Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 15:46:45 +0200 (CEST) From: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: IPFW or IPFILTER? Message-ID: <20011012154307.O52936-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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Hello. Please do not understand this question as a question of what I believ in, it is simply a question of what to use for best performance. FreeBSD uses two filtering systems, ipfw and ipfilter and each of these both systems has its own adavantages and disadvantages. ipfilter seems to be more sophisticated in how to write rules. At the moment, we use ipfw around here due to the easy rule syntax. But that is not that what should be the main argument. I want to ask for the performance, mean the throughput/bandwith. Does anyone know something about the bandwith of both filters? What are the pro and contras? Thanks, Oliver -- MfG O. Hartmann ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de ---------------------------------------------------------------- IT-Administration des Institutes fuer Physik der Atmosphaere (IPA) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 55099 Mainz Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinenraum) Tel: +496131/3924144 FAX: +496131/3923532 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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