Re: Fw: Re: A question about FreeBSD security

From: Karsten W. Rohrbach (karsten@rohrbach.de)
Date: 07/19/01 

Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 16:30:52 +0200
From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>
To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>

Dag-Erling Smorgrav(des@ofug.org)@2001.07.19 11:16:44 +0000:
> "Sergey N. Voronkov" <serg@tmn.ru> writes:
> > I prefer to use IPF 'cose of it's stateful filtering.
>
> IPFW can keep state as well.

seeing the many improvements in ipfw in the last time, selection between
ipf/ipfw for firewalls just became a "peppermint vs. spearmint flavor"
question. i am very happy to see so meny improvements in both packages.
i am also very happy about the fact to be able to use both on selected
sytems.

/k 

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