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*BSD is so much easier to get functioning as a gateway.  pf has everything integrated.

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Re: Various Questions: Using Slackware as a router+hardware firewall
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2005, 10:58:21 pm »
Whats pf?
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.


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Re: Various Questions: Using Slackware as a router+hardware firewall
« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2005, 11:40:22 pm »
It's OpenBSD's packetfiltering program which supports a number of things including ofcourse QoS and NAT.

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Re: Various Questions: Using Slackware as a router+hardware firewall
« Reply #3 on: December 21, 2005, 11:42:06 pm »
*BSD is so much easier to get functioning as a gateway.  pf has everything integrated.

You would know because you've turned Linux into a gateway?

IIRC, you've only done FreeBSD and OpenBSD. You have no clue how simple (or hard) iptables is.
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Re: Various Questions: Using Slackware as a router+hardware firewall
« Reply #4 on: December 21, 2005, 11:44:18 pm »
Telling him about what he's not using isn't very helpful.  Trashed.