RE: Free Firewalls? Thoughts...

[Smith Gary-GSMITH1 <Gary.R.Smith () motorola com>]

Hi Sean,

I have set up firewalls using Darren Reed's IPF on SunOS, Solaris, and
FreeBSD. It works great and has been a stable platform for building
firewalls for sometime now. IPF has some nice features including round-robin
redirection to do load balancing. I typically use a tool like isba
(http://www.inc2.com/isba) or firewall builder
(http://fwbuilder.sourceforge.net) to create the rulesets. I've used
IPtables/netfilter in Linux to set up firewalls. Personally, I thing IPF is
better and more comprehensible. I know I'm setting myself up for flames
here, but I think IPtables/netfilter is a based upon a bad paradigm. 
-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Barraclough [mailto:sean.barraclough () paradise net nz]
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 1:23 AM
To: firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com
Subject: [fw-wiz] Free Firewalls? Thoughts...


Hi all,

What are the thoughts on some of the "free" firewalls available. Such
firewalls as Darren Reeds IPF, or the OpenBSD PF? and the Linux offerings?

Performance?
Security?
Fancy tricks?

Just interested as to the thoughts out in the community.

Cheers,
Sean

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