Re: firewalls

[Mark Cullen <mark.cullen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> On 20.10.2004, at 19:46, Mark Cullen wrote:
>
> > I'm going to install it on a spare machine and see if I can set it up 
> > how my home server is running now. Another quickie (this one does 
> > matter somewhat though) .. it seems you're using IPFW2, is the plan to 
> > keep this around or are you going to be 'migrating' to pf or 
> > something? I like IPFW2 :)
>
>
> i think the ultimate goal is to convert all firewalls to pfil, maybe 
> even ditching all but one (IIRC Matt said something like that), but 
> those ditched would certainly be available as packages. But it's a long 
> way till then, so don't expect any big change in the next half year or 
> so.
>
> cheers
>    simon

Alight. It just took me long enough to learn the basic ins and outs of 
IPFW/2 and I have it set up and working nicely on FreeBSD that's all. 
Just so long as it'll still be about for a good while, I likely won't 
have the motivation to move to something new for quite a long time!

Thanks!

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