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

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Patrick M. Hausen <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi, all,
>
> Am 20.05.2014 um 09:09 schrieb Lucius Rizzo <[e-mail]>:
> > 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
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