newbie IPFW user

[Rémy Sanchez]

On Saturday 10 March 2012 00:39:24 Da Rock wrote:
> I'm relatively new to IPFW, not FBSD; the last time I used IPFW (I
> believe) was using 4.3. I'm now attempting to use IPFW for some tests
> (and hopefully move to production), and I'm trying to determine how I
> would setup binat using IPFW; or even if its possible at all.
> 
> I've been hunting some more in depth documentation, but it appears to be
> scarce/not definitive. I suspect using the modes in libalias such as
> "use same ports" and "reverse" might be able to do what I'm looking for?
> 
> Any clarity much appreciated.
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Well, what do you want to do with your firewall ?

Because ipfw is kick-ass for QoS management, and is fairly simple to use in 
other tasks, but if you want to do some complex NAT, it's going to be a pain 
in comparison to what pf offers.

Just make sure of what your main requirement is :)

My 2 cents,
-- 
Rémy Sanchez
http://hyperthese.net/
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