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

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On 23 May 2014, at 10:00, G. Paul Ziemba <[e-mail]> =
wrote:

> [e-mail] (Lucius Rizzo) writes:
>=20
>> 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?
>=20
> I switched to pf about seven months ago as I began to need to
> manage bandwidth for specific classes of traffic (for example,
> prevent outbound mailing list email from saturating the link
> and reserve some bandwidth for interactive use).
>=20
> The syntax is very close and the NAT configuration is simpler in pf.

Does the pfsync handle NAT tables.
Could I use it to build a resilient carrier grade NAT solution?

Joe


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