Which Firewall?

[bycn82]

*Hi,*

*Sorry I dont get the point of why you got confused. there are 2 firewall
in DragonflyBSD*

*PF is a great firewall, it is used in all BSD systems. especially the PF
in DragonflyBSD, it is "SMP-Friendly",*

*IPFW in DragonflyBSD was inherited from FreeBSD as you know that
DragonflyBSD was forked from FreeBSD.*

*Personally I prefer IPFW, It is "modular" and "SMP-Friendly". for more
detail ,you can get from  **http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/ipfw2/
<http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/ipfw2/>   and if you send me personally
if you have any question about it.*


*Regards,*
*Bill Yuan*


On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:21 PM, Jeremy <dyre17 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> 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.
>
> I find this misleading & confusing, as it suggests that ipfw may be a more
> sensible way to go, despite stating that pf is "recommended".
>
> Could someone kindly rectify my understand here?
>
> Thank you.
>
> -Jeremy
>
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