[wplug-bsd] firewalling in freebsd

[Duncan Hutty]

Would you mind giving your opinion on firewall options in freebsd?
I assume that each of them will do the job just fine for the purposes of 
protecting a single box so it can be used as a fairly simple server for 
http, smtp, imap and ssh from 2 specific hosts, but there may be reasons 
of convenience or something that might sway the choice.

Rate each of pf, IPfilter, ipfw for learning curve (coming from 
iptables/netfilter), convenience and power/flexibility? Is one 
considered more 'standard freebsd'? Is one overwhelmingly more common?

Duncan