[wplug-bsd] firewalling in freebsd

[Tom Rhodes]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:32:05 -0500
Duncan Hutty <dhutty+wplug-bsd at ece.cmu.edu> wrote:

> 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?

I'll only use IPFW or PF.  Want an example?

-- 
Tom Rhodes