On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Philip Reynolds wrote:
> Well, that doesn't help you reading your listing.
i can read it fine. :)
if you want readability - a good script is worth just as much.
> > isnt the ipfw code in BSD brand-new aswell? (the old code was
> > rewritten for OpenBSD recently due to licensing concerns).
>
> I think you're talking about IPFilter, and OpenBSD's new PF code.
> Now who's talking FUD :)
ah doh! yes.
i thought the firewalling code on all the BSDs was fairly related -
sorry. So FreeBSD's ipfw is not encumbered in the same way the old
OBSD firewalling was?
> Perhaps, although I think when seriously considering something like
> a firewall, tried and trusted means a hell of a lot. IPFilter would
> probably win that race.
to an extent, i guess so, yes. but i've a few boxes with reasonable
uptimes that run netfilter/iptables. (i've one that has crashed twice
now after 60+ day uptimes. but that doesnt seem to be netfilter).
course, there's a lot more that can go wrong with a firewall than the
firewall code. in that case get 2 boxes and heartbeat them.
> I was talking in terms of the actual firewall. If the company in
> question knows plenty about Linux and nothing about FreeBSD, I'd go
> with a Linux box, merely because when something goes wrong (that
> isn't got to do with ipfw/ipchains/ipfilter), then someone knows
> how to fix it.
indeed. couldnt agree more.
(that's the nice thing about *nix - fact we /can/ have nit-picking
arguments about which *nix and firewall code is better).
> As I said before, I have little to no in-depth experience with
> netfilter, I'm aware of it's basic capabilities and had a quick
> look at it's features in early 2.4 editions but that's it.
i've no experience of ipfw. (closest i've come is looking at IPFilter
for IRIX - but it had a problem in that it wasnt maintained
anymore. however, while the englishy syntax is nice, i dont think
iptables command <args> syntax is a big obstacle).
anyway.. there's choice. and as i understand it, with the advent of
netfilter/iptables there's now almost nothing between them from a
technical POV. (apart from ipfw being in use a lot longer).
regards,
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