Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 00:09:26 -0700 From: Lucius Rizzo <Lucius.Rizzo@The.ie> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: What is your favourite/best firewall on FreeBSD and why? Message-ID: <20140520070926.GA92183@The.ie>
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I have been looking into articles comparing firewalls that come with FreeBSD. There isn't much recent info on the net. I am currently using FreeBSD 10 with IPFilter. Firewalls are like MTA servers I find. Each person has their own proclivities. I happened to have started with IPFilter with Solaris and throughout Solaris years. Lately, on my Linux servers, I end up running ufw as lazy man's iptables cli frontend which is easy enough. Ultimately, outside configuration differences all firewalls are essentially serve the same purpose but I wonder what is your favorite and why? If you were to run FreeBSD in production, which of the three would you choose? IPFilter, PF or IPFW? Also there is a lack of good interesting rule sets in the BSD realm. With Linux, there was even a iptables rule set to prevent heartbleed. If you use any of the firewalls, and have interesting or even optimized rule sets, I would really like to see them :) Regards, -- | _o _ |_)o_ _ _ |_|_|(_||_|_> | \|/_/_(_) - Lucius.Tel -------------------------------------- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CAUTION: Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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