Hi , On 2/9/07, Peter Serwe <peter at infostreet.com> wrote: > > mouss wrote: > > depends on your situation. if you don't have performance issues and no > > special configuration needs, then a low end commercial firewall would > > be enough. otherwise, you need to take the time to learn iptables, or > > find someone to help you build your firewall. > > > > there are guis available. google is your friend. one that comes to > > mind now is fwbuilder. Personally, if I was using the box as a firewall, lightweight network > utility, VPN, router, NAT, > or whatever else a typical gateway might handle, I'd run it on BSD and > PF in a heartbeat over > iptables. When it comes to BSD which BSD Free bsd or OpenBSD. I have used Free BSD 6. I think PF was originally came with Open BSD. But It has been already assed to Free BSD port tree. So, Which Should I use? Iptables with linux or PF with Open BSD or Free BSD. help needed. Linux's general adhesion to the ridiculously obtuse and > difficult ipchains/iptables > legacy is extremely unfortunate at best, and IMO, far less functional. > Your entire PF > configuration file (amazingly) named /etc/pf.conf can be easily less > than 15 lines and > cover quite a lot of ground. > > Kinda reminiscent of the old IPFW, only evolved about 200 years, which > would make it > 10,200 years more evolved than ipchains/iptables. > > :P > > (*climbing back into Nomex in nuke bunker*) > > Peter > > -- > Peter Serwe <peter at infostreet dot com> > > http://www.infostreet.com > > "The only true sports are bullfighting, mountain climbing and auto > racing." -Earnest Hemingway > > "Because everything else requires only one ball." -Unknown > > "Do you wanna go fast or suck?" -Mike Kojima > > "There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make > love." -Sir Stirling Moss > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070209/dc0fcd13/attachment-0005.html>