FreeBSD Firewalls

[Mike]

On 12/7/2016 2:42 PM, James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions wrote:
> Well, the setup and loading of Postgresql9.6 seems to have completed
> successfully.  Now, before this can go live I need to set up the
> firewall.  I am used to IPTables on CentOS but have no experience with
> IPFilter or PF.
> 
> First, which firewall, of the three I read are available (IPFW,
> IPFilter and PF is the recommended choice?
> 
> Which of them, if any, have FW for dummies like tools/guides?
> 
> 

A good place to start, if you haven't been there already:

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

One note about pf and Freebsd... the version of pf in FreeBSD uses the
older pf.conf syntax of pf, I believe it is equivalent to the version in
OpenBSD 4.5.  So when you google for things, you have to keep the
differing syntax in mind.