Rob MacGregor wrote: > On 5/5/06, Michael Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I ran across this web page: >> >> http://www.muine.org/~hoang/freenat.html >> >> It implies that both ipfw and ipfilter can be used simultaneously on >> the same box, using ipfilter as the main firewall and ipfw just to >> shape the traffic via dummynet. I did not think that this was >> possible. Anyone out there tried this? Any gotchas? > > I've seen this discussed more than once in relation to doing it with > FreeBSD. Indeed the FAQ for FreeBSD > (http://www.phildev.net/ipf/IPFfreebsd.html) talks about doing this: > > It is possible to use IPFW and IPF together, e.g. using IPFW for > dummynet and IPF for filterning and NAT, see below. > > See the FAQ for more.
It is quite simple actually, you just enable both in your kernel (or maybe load both ko's). I've been doing this for a while now, without any problems what-so-ever. Best, Koen -- K.F.J. Martens, Sonologic, http://www.sonologic.nl/ Networking, hosting, embedded systems, unix, artificial intelligence. Public PGP key: http://www.metro.cx/pubkey-gmc.asc Wondering about the funny attachment your mail program can't read? Visit http://www.openpgp.org/
