firewall on FreeBSD

mess-mate messmate at free.fr
Sat Jun 25 14:17:03 GMT 2005


Andrew L. Gould <algould at datawok.com> wrote:
| On Saturday 25 June 2005 05:19 am, Erik Nørgaard wrote:
| > mess-mate wrote:
| > > I've a firewall/router/proxy with openbsd and think to replace it
| > > with freebsd 5.4
| > > Do you mean freebsd's PF don't support the 'quick' keyword ??
| > > Thought PF on freebsd and openbsd was identical, isn't ?
| >
| > It's a port, pf on FBSD 5.4 is the same as pf on OBSD 3.6, AFAIK. So
| > if your OBSD is the latest or updated after 3.6, then you might have
| > functionalities not supported yet on FBSD.
| >
| > The basic stuff is all the same, I don't think anyone could survive
| > without 'quick', just as 'pass' and 'block' are supported on both
| > platforms :-)
| >
| > Cheers, Erik
| 
| Minor correction:  pf is built into the kernel by default in FreeBSD 
| 5.4.  I think this started with FreeBSD 5.3.  It may still be in the 
| ports system; but that would be for use in FreeBSD 4* and earlier 
| versions of 5*.
| 
| Have a great weekend!
| 
| Andrew Gould
| 
The openbsd version is 3.5.
Can i porting the pf config file to freebsd ?
great weekend to.

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