What is your favourite/best firewall on FreeBSD and why?

[Rolf Nielsen]

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On 2014-05-21 10:22, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Patrick M. Hausen
> <hausen at punkt.de> wrote:
> 
>> Hi, all,
>> 
>> Am 20.05.2014 um 09:09 schrieb Lucius Rizzo
>> <Lucius.Rizzo at The.ie>:
>>> Ultimately, outside configuration differences all firewalls
>>> are
>> essentially
>>> serve the same purpose but I wonder what is your favorite and
>>> why? If you were to run FreeBSD in production, which of the
>>> three would you choose? IPFilter, PF or IPFW?
>> 
>> IPFW since it was first introduced. It's the standard one, works,
>> and I don't miss anything.
>> 
>> Kind regards Patrick
>> 
> 
> IPFW for me as well.
> 
> pf has nice features, but has a tendency to crash if one enables
> things like vimage.
> 
> I haven't tried IPFilter in FreeBSD, I only tried it on
> opensolaris.
> 
> Best regards Andreas

IPFW for me too. It was what was availabe when I first started using a
firewall, and it does what I want, so I see no reason to switch.

Rolf

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