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Date:      Tue, 8 Oct 2002 07:16:27 -0500
From:      "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>
To:        "ksrgyn -" <ksrgyn@hotmail.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: IPFW and IpFilter
Message-ID:  <005c01c26ec4$8acc37c0$8204dca7@northamerica.corp.microsoft.com>
References:  <F73cYTjr8cU6xfPTeip000002c4@hotmail.com>

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Why would you want to do that?  I can think of no reason to use both other
than some of the supplemental features of ipfw like bandwidth shaping.

Tom Veldhouse

----- Original Message -----
From: "ksrgyn -" <ksrgyn@hotmail.com>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 3:58 PM
Subject: IPFW and IpFilter


>
> Hi,
>
>   I have a problem where the ipfw and ipfilter can not work together.
>   I need the packages matching first in the rules of ipfw and after in the
> rules of ipfiter.
>   I configure my kernel with ipfw options before ipfilter options and i
> compile but don't work, then i try to compile my kernel with the ipfw
> options and without ipfilter options that was loaded as a module,  and
don't
> work too.
>   The packages must be checked first in IPFW and then they need to be
> checked in ipfilter. They are not being checked in IPFW, what's the
problem
> ?
>
> This is what i find in IPFILTER FAQ:
>
> IPF and IPFW both have features I want to use, must I choose between them?
> No. You can run them both on a single machine. However, you must take care
> to ensure that one package's rules do not interfere with the other's. Note
> that the packages get access to rules in the order in which they were
> loaded, e.g. if IPFW is compiled in the kernel and IPF is loaded as a
> module, IPFW "sees" packets before IPF.
>
>
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