Which Firewall --> ipfw or iptable or ipsec

Crist J. Clark cristjc at comcast.net
Tue Nov 18 17:05:19 PST 2003


On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 02:29:29PM +0100, Max Laier wrote:
[snip]

> 2) IPFILTER (a bit dated but with quite a few FAQs around)
> 3) PF: security/pf (from ports. The OpenBSD FAQ is a good starting
>    point to learn about it's capabilities:
>    http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/index.html)
> 
> For case 2) & 3) you'll need "option PFIL_HOOKS" in your kernel, which
> is - sadly enough - not (yet) in GENERIC.

You do not need PFIL_HOOKS for the 4_RELENG branch (FreeBSD
4.x). Starting with 5.2 you will not need it in the 5.x branch
either.
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                                   |     cjclark at jhu.edu
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