firewall on FreeBSD

[Alex Zbyslaw]

Paul Schmehl wrote:

> --On June 25, 2005 8:42:24 AM +0200 mess-mate <messmate at free.fr> 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 ?
>>
> pf on freebsd does support the "quick" keyword.  The "default" 
> firewall, ipfw, does not.

This makes no sense to me.  The two firewalls work very differently.

In pf, each rule is always processed on every packet and the last rule 
matching determines the action.  "quick" terminates the rule matching 
and forces the "quick" rule to be, in effect, the final rule (assuming 
the packet matched it).

ipfw does not match every rule for every packet, rather is processes 
down the rules until the packet matches one with a terminating action 
such as "accept" or "deny".  No "quick" keyword is needed.

--Alex