[CentOS] Optimizing CentOS for gigabit firewall

Matty matty91 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 20 18:29:40 UTC 2009


On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:06 PM, nate <centos at linuxpowered.net> wrote:

> iptables makes a TERRIBLE firewall, use pf instead
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/index.html

I whole heartedly with Nate on this! I spent a bunch of time looking
at firewall solutions a year or two back, and PF was by far the
easiest solution to manage and get up and running. There are also some
killer tools for monitoring PF activity:

http://prefetch.net/articles/monitoringpf.html

- Ryan
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http://prefetch.net



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