ipfw or pf

[Stevan Tiefert]

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Albert Shih wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> >From FreeBSD 4.5 I use ipfw on freebsd-box with 3 NIC card.
>
> Now I'm in FreeBSD 5.1. I've see in FreeBSD 5.3 there are pf and ipfw, why
> there two versions ? The ipfw is always maintened ? Or I need to switch to
> pf ?
>
> Why can I do with PF that I can't do with ipfw ?
>
> I've ask this because I «known» ipfw and the syntax of pf is strange to me,
> and I want known if it's good idea to learn pf.
>
> Regards.
>
>
> --
> Albert SHIH
> Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT)
> U.F.R. de Mathematiques.
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> Tue Mar 1 23:39:06 CET 2005
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The both packef filters are maintained! pf is "ported" from OpenBSD and
ipfw is from FreeBSD.

Whenever two programs two syntaxes...

With regards
Stevan Tiefert