On Thursday, December 09, 2010 02:55 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: > Second, iptables is a de-facto standard for Linux, just as pf is pretty > much the standard firewalling on BSD. Windows and Solaris got their own > firewalling methods as well. My point is, neither of them are any Posix > standards ... would you prefer to not use any of these firewall > implementations due to lack of cross-platform Posix support? > Ah...I believe it is ipfw that is standard on the BSDs although pf has been ported to FreeBSD...