On 27 Nov 2020, at 9:29, tech-lists wrote: > What's the "best" [1] choice for firewalling these days, in the list's > opinion? > > There's pf, ipf and ipfw. Which is the one being most recently > developed/updated? > I'm used to using pf, have done for over a decade. But OpenBSD's pf > has diverged a lot more from when it first came across. There seems to > be a lot more options. > Is FreeBSD's pf being actively developed still? > All three are actively maintained and grow new features from time to time. > [1] up-to-date See above. All three are actively maintained. > low overhead, high throughput I believe ipfw currently performs best. I can’t rank ipf and pf, because I’ve not seen benchmarks for ipf. > IPv6-able, All three. > traffic shaping/queueing Mostly ipfw, because dummynet. pf has ALTQ, but that has more limitations than dummynet. I think ipf doesn’t do shaping, but I may be mistaken about that. Best regards, KristofReceived on Fri Nov 27 2020 - 10:22:59 UTC
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