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

Daniel Kalchev daniel at digsys.bg
Fri May 23 07:58:50 UTC 2014


On 20.05.14 10:09, Lucius Rizzo wrote:
> 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?

Coming from BSD/OS, IPFW was my natural choice. Have been using it for 
many, many years.

But, as it turns our, for many years, it has an problem with table 
manipulation, that wasn't fixed, so for these applications I switched to PF.

I still prefer the IPFW style configuration and management though.

Daniel


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