philip reynolds philredbrickdcuie paul jakmas paulclubiie 67 lines wisdom included thought firewalling code bsds fairly related sorry freebsds ipfw encumbered way old obsd firewalling nope indeed ipfw2 rolled stable stable stable branch code rolled current first basically major release thats still work progress extent guess yes ive boxes reasonable uptimes run netfilteriptables ive one crashed twice 60 day uptimes doesnt seem netfilter course theres lot go wrong firewall firewall code case get 2 boxes heartbeat dont really judge things uptimes rather like judging penis size people like comparing larger people awe overly large ones arent really practical indeed couldnt agree thats nice thing nix fact nitpicking arguments nix firewall code better defiantely wouldnt like anyone accuse nitpicker though ive experience ipfw closest ive come looking ipfilter irix problem wasnt maintained anymore however englishy syntax nice dont think iptables command syntax big obstacle anyway theres choice understand advent netfilteriptables theres almost nothing technical pov apart ipfw use lot longer well someone whos used ipchains quite heavily two years ago guarantee learning curve reading ipchains rules ipfw rules quite different course youve memorised necessarily sitting sheet learning rote wonder fuss reason choose one firewall product another thats difference learning curve operating system know id prefer beginner getting rather offtopic anyways since ive quite lot work ipfw last week jumped bandwagon philip reynolds rfc networks tel 01 8832063 wwwrfcnetworksie fax 01 8832041 irish linux users group iluglinuxie httpwwwlinuxiemailmanlistinfoilug unsubscription information list maintainer listmasterlinuxie mon 29 jul 2002 222632 0100 ilug ipfw vs ipchains vs iptables