philip reynolds philredbrickdcuie nick hilliards nicklistsnetabilityie 52 lines wisdom included standard release versions ipfilter unencumbered always nope indeed ipfw2 rolled stable stable stable branch code rolled current first basically major release thats still work progress im sure ipfw2 really ready production yet mfcd last wednesday certainly adds nice syntactic sugar apparently much faster certain types complex rulesets good time settle little would question anything ready production stable hes kept backwards compatibility ipfw major plus point ipfw2 rolled stable merely illustration fact ipfw indeed ipfilter license issues philip reynolds rfc networks tel 01 8832063 wwwrfcnetworksie fax 01 8832041 irish linux users group iluglinuxie httpwwwlinuxiemailmanlistinfoilug unsubscription information list maintainer listmasterlinuxie tue 30 jul 2002 132238 0100 ilug ipfw vs ipchains vs iptables