Re: firewall choice

2020-11-28 Thread grarpamp
>> A full comparison would also want to note and point to > My ipf work is documented at https://wiki.freebsd.org/IPFilter. So links to works / pages like that from the bsd's could also be included in the comparison wiki. ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org

Re: firewall choice

2020-11-28 Thread grarpamp
> in reaction to the license Yes, license matters, and woe the history. > It's hardly deprecated in NetBSD. Christos Zoulas and I have exchanged a > fair bit of code. > > Darren Reed released and maintained IPF through the Australian National > University. NetBSD imported it, like we do here at F

Re: firewall choice

2020-11-27 Thread Cy Schubert
In message , grarpamp writes: > >>> What's the "best" [1] choice for firewalling these days > >>> There's pf, ipf and ipfw. > >> > >>This question comes up over years. > >> > >>Consider starting and joining with people to create > >>a comparison page on the FreeBSD Wiki, > >>both a feature / capab

Re: firewall choice

2020-11-27 Thread tech-lists
On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 06:11:43PM -0500, grarpamp wrote: [...lots...] OK thanks for that looks like I've got some reading to do -- J. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: firewall choice

2020-11-27 Thread grarpamp
>>> What's the "best" [1] choice for firewalling these days >>> There's pf, ipf and ipfw. >> >>This question comes up over years. >> >>Consider starting and joining with people to create >>a comparison page on the FreeBSD Wiki, >>both a feature / capability comparison table, >>and contextual paragr

Re: firewall choice

2020-11-27 Thread tech-lists
On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 06:17:53AM -0500, grarpamp wrote: What's the "best" [1] choice for firewalling these days, in the list's opinion? There's pf, ipf and ipfw. This question comes up over years. Consider starting and joining with people to create a comparison page on the FreeBSD Wiki, both

Re: firewall choice

2020-11-27 Thread Kristof Provost
On 27 Nov 2020, at 9:29, tech-lists wrote: What's the "best" [1] choice for firewalling these days, in the list's opinion? There's pf, ipf and ipfw. Which is the one being most recently developed/updated? I'm used to using pf, have done for over a decade. But OpenBSD's pf has diverged a lot m

Re: firewall choice

2020-11-27 Thread grarpamp
> What's the "best" [1] choice for firewalling these days, in the list's > opinion? > There's pf, ipf and ipfw. This question comes up over years. Consider starting and joining with people to create a comparison page on the FreeBSD Wiki, both a feature / capability comparison table, and contextu

Re: firewall choice

2020-11-27 Thread Chris
On 2020-11-27 00:29, tech-lists wrote: Hi, What's the "best" [1] choice for firewalling these days, in the list's opinion? I can't speak for the whole list. ;-) But in my opinion with tables totaling over 150 million IPs. I'm casting a vote for pf(4). It's wildly easy on resources and as fas

Re: firewall choice

2020-11-27 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! > What's the "best" [1] choice for firewalling these days, in the list's > opinion? At work, we use pf for complex setups, editing the rules using fwbuilder, and ipfw for the simple setups and the quick blocks... -- p...@opsec.eu+49 171 3101372Now what ? ___