I use IPF on a FreeBSD 4.2 box. I was going to go with OpenBSD, but it did
not like the Intel Server NIC on the Motherboard. It is a 2U rackmount
server with 4 nics, and I need them all. Also FreeBSD has SMP support. IPF
is quite powerful. My actual configuration is IPF for Statefull packet
filtering, squid for transparent HTTP proxy, and IPFW(another FreeBSD only)
with Dummynet for rate limiting. I would say OpenBSD is more secure but the
hardware support tends to be lacking. If you can make it work for you, then
great. Check out the IPF section of http://www.openbsd.org/faq/index.html .
Mason
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Subject: Re: ipf / openBSD
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm trying to setup an openBSD box as a simple firewall with two NICs
> for this I plan to use ipf, provided with openBSD 2.8
> I wonder if anyone there tried it and is happy with it.
I've heard rave reviews of ipf.
> I would enjoy some feedback from you and ,of course some sites giving
> documentation about it.
http://www.obfuscation.org/ipf/
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