ipfw or pf

Loren M. Lang lorenl at alzatex.com
Thu Mar 3 21:07:55 GMT 2005


On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 12:57:06PM +0100, Albert Shih wrote:
>  Le 02/03/2005 ? 09:03:23+0100, Stevan Tiefert a ?crit
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Albert Shih wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > 
> > The both packef filters are maintained! pf is "ported" from OpenBSD and
> > ipfw is from FreeBSD.
> 
> Great....I can continu to use ipfw....;-))
> 
> > 
> > Whenever two programs two syntaxes...
> 
> Well it's not de syntaxes, I always use packet filter system (sometime on
> hardware like Foundry/Cisco) where the rule is : First match first use. And
> the pf use entire rules is very strange for me (I known I can use ?quick?
> but....well it's not the philosophy I think).

I like first match better too, but I think pf is sufficiently better
that I just use it with quick over ipfw.

> 
> Lots of thanks for your answer.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> 
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