ipfw1 <-> ipfw2 compatibility?

Luigi Rizzo rizzo at icir.org
Sun Jul 6 07:02:19 PDT 2003


On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 12:41:21PM +0200, clemens fischer wrote:
> with a working set of ipfw1 rules and the desire to test ipfw2, can i
> be sure the ipfw1 ruleset will work unmodified with ipfw2 enabled?  i

It depends a lot on which rules you use.
You should really read the ipfw manpage in the section detailing
the differences between the two. There are ipfw1 bugs that ipfw2
has fixed, and possibly different bugs in ipfw2 that do not exist
in ipfw1.

	cheers
	luigi

> have synced both the kernel sources and userland using cvsup(1) today
> and rebuilding world.
> 
>   clemens
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