Firewall

Wilkinson, Alex alex.wilkinson at dsto.defence.gov.au
Tue May 1 04:12:30 UTC 2007


    0n Tue, May 01, 2007 at 11:31:58AM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: 

    >    0n Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 10:58:18AM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: 
    >
    >    >One of the big selling points of IPFW is integration with DUMMYNET, which 
    >    >offers bandwidth management facilities not present in the other systems.  I 
    >    >understand there may be efforts afoot to add DUMMYNET support to other 
    >    >firewall packages, but don't have any details.  I have to say that DUMMYNET 
    >    >is the main selling point for ipfw on my servers -- being able to rate 
    >    >limit arbitrary IP addresses, port numbers, etc, both in terms of inbound 
    >    >and outbound traffic is invaluable.
    >
    >eh ? PF has ALTQ built in.

Read the next msg from Robert.Watson.

 -aW

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