IPFW or pf?

[Andreas Davour]

I have read the handbook about firewalls, and compiled my kernel without 
switching on any explicit support for pf.

Now, when I ran the mergemaster it suddenly found a lot of references to 
pf in my startup scripts.

Is pf some kind of mandatory part of the base system these days? I 
thought it was some kind of alternative to IPFW, but now I'm no longer 
so sure.

Can someone tell me if it's ok to just use IPFW on my STABLE system, or 
is there some other knobs in the kernelconfig I should toggle to turn 
off pf support?

/Andreas

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