From: Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic@pbl.ca>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: What is the diference between ipfw of *bsd and netfilter of linux?
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 15:32:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4161B35F.5060608@pbl.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1096920404.658.4.camel@pretorian>
Carlos Mario Mora (c4y0) wrote:
> hi!
>
> im looking for the diference between ipfw and iptables. Many people
> say to ipfw is more secure of iptables, but they cant explain why that.
If ipfw is what I think it is, than only difference is better connection
tracking (it tracks TCP window numbers). However, Netfilter got that
suppor recently as well (as a patch), and it seems that it will be
standard part of Linux kernel as of 2.6.9 (at least by looking into the
ChangeLog, I might be wrong).
Other than that, I don't see why would one be more secure than another.
So I'd say they are becoming about the same as security goes.
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Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic@pbl.ca> Pollard Banknote Limited
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-04 20:06 What is the diference between ipfw of *bsd and netfilter of linux? Carlos Mario Mora (c4y0)
2004-10-04 20:32 ` Aleksandar Milivojevic [this message]
2004-10-05 16:58 ` Jose Maria Lopez
2004-10-05 17:23 ` Damjan
2004-10-05 18:24 ` Jason Opperisano
2004-10-05 19:21 ` Steven M Campbell
2004-10-22 2:16 ` Damjan
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2004-10-04 20:29 Daniel Chemko
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