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

Sun Jan 19 03:34:04 UTC 2003

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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