[geeks] fw

Greg A. Woods woods at weird.com
Wed Jul 24 20:22:16 CDT 2002


[ On Wednesday, July 24, 2002 at 17:12:02 (-0500), Shawn Wallbridge wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] fw
>
> I don't know. From what I have read, I trust pf more than I trust ipf. 
> The OpenBSD developers REALLY take security seriously. I can't remember 
> where I saw it, but I recall reading something comparing the performance 
> of both and pf was faster.

pf is not yet mature enough IMO....

and ipf beats the hell out of that firewall-1 crud on many fronts --
all but the fuzzy commercial support front....

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