On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:50:06 +0100 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. There is one thing that IPFW has that PF does not that I have found to be very handy at times. It can be used to setup firewall rules that only affect a specific group or user. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"