<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(153,0,255)"><i>Hi,</i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(153,0,255)"><i><br></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(153,0,255)"><i>Sorry I dont get the point of why you got confused. there are 2 firewall in DragonflyBSD</i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(153,0,255)"><i><br></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(153,0,255)"><i>PF is a great firewall, it is used in all BSD systems. especially the PF in DragonflyBSD, it is "SMP-Friendly",</i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(153,0,255)"><i><br></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(153,0,255)"><i>IPFW in DragonflyBSD was inherited from FreeBSD as you know that DragonflyBSD was forked from FreeBSD.</i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(153,0,255)"><i><br></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style><i style="color:rgb(153,0,255);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Personally I prefer IPFW, It is "modular" and "SMP-Friendly". for more detail ,you can get from </i><font color="#9900ff" face="verdana, sans-serif"><i><a href="http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/ipfw2/">http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/ipfw2/</a> and if you send me personally if you have any question about it.</i></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font color="#9900ff" face="verdana, sans-serif"><i><br></i></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font color="#9900ff" face="verdana, sans-serif"><i>Regards,</i></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font color="#9900ff" face="verdana, sans-serif"><i>Bill Yuan</i></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font color="#9900ff" face="verdana, sans-serif"><i><br></i></font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:21 PM, Jeremy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dyre17@gmail.com" target="_blank">dyre17@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>the Dragonfly handbook states pf is the recommended firewall, yet goes on to say that the included pf is the older pf & that ipfw has features not yet available in pf. Then it goes on to give very detailed instructions for ipfw & points pf users to (seemingly) broken link as a manual.</div><div><br></div><div>I find this misleading & confusing, as it suggests that ipfw may be a more sensible way to go, despite stating that pf is "recommended".</div><div><br></div><div>Could someone kindly rectify my understand here?</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-Jeremy</div></font></span></div>
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