On 09/12/10 01:05, Christopher Chan wrote: > 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... You might be pretty much right. The *BSD does have several firewall solutions, some unique to some *BSDs and some available to most of the BSD flavours, and I might have confused it. Thanks for straiten me out! kind regards, David Sommerseth