Advice on which FreeBSD firewall package to choose.

[Atom Powers]

On 1/4/07, Eric <heli at mikestammer.com> wrote:
> Brett Davidson wrote:
> > Before I start, I'm familiar with IPTables from Linux but am wanting to
> > use FreeBSD as a firewalling router after seeing it in action on a
> > heavily-loaded webserver. I like the efficiency of the TCP stack.
> >
> > Upon reading the handbook I found that I can have my choice of three
> > firewalls; pf, iptables and ipfw.
> >
...
> >
> > Against prudence, they wish to allow torrent connections to the inside
> > lan and ICQ connections to both the Inside LAN and the Wireless DMZ. The
> > torrent and ICQ connections will need to be bandwidth-managed so that is
> > a major consideration for the choice of which firewall to use. Is there
> > an equivalent to HTB on FreeBSD?
> >
> >
> i believe pf is the most modern and cleanest/easiest syntax to use. it
> is actively developed and lots of people use it. You can set up priority
> on bandwidth in pf as well, so it should meet all your requirements nicely.

pf will also do the bandwidth management you want. I've used ipfw,
ipf, iptables, and pf; pf is by far the most powerful and easy to use.

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