Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 10:22:44 +0200 From: Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com> To: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> Cc: FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Lucius Rizzo <Lucius.Rizzo@the.ie> Subject: Re: What is your favourite/best firewall on FreeBSD and why? Message-ID: <CAPS9%2BSs0=wkBuNO4=H3Gt7mVor9hVpN4f_EVQ_Ywga_Z1c2UaA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4341ADF1-E684-4531-8DD0-10107E097D68@punkt.de> References: <20140520070926.GA92183@The.ie> <4341ADF1-E684-4531-8DD0-10107E097D68@punkt.de>
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On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Patrick M. Hausen <hausen@punkt.de> wrote: > Hi, all, > > Am 20.05.2014 um 09:09 schrieb Lucius Rizzo <Lucius.Rizzo@The.ie>: > > 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? > > IPFW since it was first introduced. It's the standard one, works, and I > don't miss anything. > > Kind regards > Patrick > IPFW for me as well. pf has nice features, but has a tendency to crash if one enables things like vimage. I haven't tried IPFilter in FreeBSD, I only tried it on opensolaris. Best regards Andreas
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