As RLUG is the unofficial dumping point for local, disenfranchised *BSD fans, I'm going to spread a little blasphemy about...
A couple months back, I ripped OpenBSD off one of my routers and replaced it with FreeBSD 6 with pf. For years I was using OpenBSD/pf for the features. Once or twice I tried playing with a FreeBSD/(ipfw/ipfilter) solution, but ran into to several glitches, and just wasn't unhappy enough with pf to expend too much efford ironing them out. IAC, when OpenBSD's pf packet filter was ported to FreeBSD, I decided to try it out and am happy. I haven't had any issues with it. It's not a big deal to recompile the kernel for the altq queuing support. I know there are a few other *BSD users about on the list, or at least fans of the *nix platform in general. Has anyone else had any experience running FreeBSD+pf ? Or any input comparing pf to FreeBSD's native packet filter/firewall solutions? Finally, if we can keep flaming to a minimum, I'd like to know what features you've all found irreplaceable on any of the solutions: pf, ipfw, ipfilter, or *even* iptables? :) (We don't really need to bring up ipchains anymore, do we?) Cheers! Tim _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
