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Off topic/Crap => Trash Can => Topic started by: Eric on December 21, 2005, 10:47:06 PM

Title: Re: Various Questions: Using Slackware as a router+hardware firewall
Post by: Eric on December 21, 2005, 10:47:06 PM
*BSD is so much easier to get functioning as a gateway.  pf has everything integrated.
Title: Re: Various Questions: Using Slackware as a router+hardware firewall
Post by: Joe on December 21, 2005, 10:58:21 PM
Whats pf?
Title: Re: Various Questions: Using Slackware as a router+hardware firewall
Post by: Eric 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.
Title: Re: Various Questions: Using Slackware as a router+hardware firewall
Post by: Newby on December 21, 2005, 11:42:06 PM
Quote from: Lord[nK] on December 21, 2005, 10:47:06 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.
Title: Re: Various Questions: Using Slackware as a router+hardware firewall
Post by: iago on December 21, 2005, 11:44:18 PM
Telling him about what he's not using isn't very helpful.  Trashed. 
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