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Date:      Mon, 4 Dec 2000 18:15:02 -0200
From:      "Antonio Carlos Pina" <apina@infolink.com.br>
To:        "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>
Cc:        <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: IPFIREWALL or IPFILTER?
Message-ID:  <00dd01c05e2e$e42a0700$0b6cffc8@infolink.com.br>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012031955270.59659-100000@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>

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Hello,

I believe (sorry if I'm wrong) that you can't use DUMMYNET with IPFILTER,
only with IPFW.
Besides that, I've seen a lot of people saying that IPFILTER is better than
IPFW (faster, more powerful, etc)

Best Regards,

----- Original Message -----
From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>
To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Cc: <freebsd-firewall@freebsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 4:59 PM
Subject: IPFIREWALL or IPFILTER?


> Dear Sirs.
>
> I asked this question prior and it's coming up again. FreeBSD comes with
> two firewall systems/ IP filtering kernel facilities. At this moment we
> use IPFW to filter but I saw many updates for IPF in the last period.
>
> Can anyone tell me the benefits of both systems? What is the real FreeBSD
> native filtering code and which one is the fastest one? Maybe ist is
> a foolish question, but behind this there is a lot of manitanance
> stuff ...
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Oliver
>
> -




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