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Re: Merits of purpose-built (appliance) vs. FreeBSD+ipfw firewalls

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (E.B. Dreger)
Sat Jan 18 22:35:18 2003

Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 03:34:04 +0000 (GMT)
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To: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
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AV> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 08:41:15 -0800 (PST)
AV> From: Avleen Vig


AV> But I agree with Scott that a stateful packet filter like pf
AV> on OpenBSD or ipf on FreeBSD is much better at this task.

	man ipfw
	/-state <ENTER>


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