ipfw ipf pf etc etc

[Nikolas Britton]

Jimmy wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am currently trying to find out what the differences are between the 
> different firewall/packet filters in FreeBSD 5.3.
>
> From what I understand there is ipfw pf and maybe others as well?

ipfilter and ipchains (Linux) are two others, I use ipfilter.

>
>
> Any additional feedback would be great.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls.html