firewall choice

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Fri Nov 27 11:17:56 UTC 2020


> What's the "best" [1] choice for firewalling these days, in the list's opinion?
> There's pf, ipf and ipfw.

This question comes up over years.

Consider starting and joining with people to create
a comparison page on the FreeBSD Wiki,
both a feature / capability comparison table,
and contextual paragraphs.
A mini project like that can help many users
and add their researches to it.

> [1] up-to-date, versatile, low overhead, high throughput, IPv6-able,
> traffic shaping/queueing


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