On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Bruce Cran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Doug Hardie wrote: > > > FreeBSD supports 3 firewalls: IPF, IPFW, and PF. Some time ago > > (perhaps years) I seem to recall some discussion that one or more of those > > was better maintained and higher quality than the others. I don't see any > > indications of this in the handbook. Several years ago I needed to do > > traffic shaping and used IPFW with dummynet. It worked but the need > > eventually went away. More recently I needed to incorporate spamd which > > defaults to PF so I used that. However, now I am back to needing traffic > > shaping again. I suspect trying to use both PF and IPFW simultaneously will > > not be a good approach. In addition, there now are instructions for using > > spamd with IPFW so it appears that either PF or IPFW will do what I need. > > Is there any additional information available to assist in selecting > > between those? Thanks. > > > > As I understand it pf is often found to be easiest to use and has lots of > features like altq and os fingerprinting but is quite a bit slower than > ipfw. > > -- > Bruce > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > Reading this post, i have some doubt, how is IPFW support for VoIP packets, can do traffic shaping?, i read that PF can do that, I'm right? Thanks!!! _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"