Been spending the afternoon reading about PF, it's really grabbed my attention! I think I'm going to play with this some more this weekend, looks extremely robust.
I also found NSH on the flashdist site that was mentioned earlier, that looks pretty good as well. On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Chris Babcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen Brown Jr wrote: > > > You may find that you prefer one of the BSDs. > > > > I was just sitting here playing with OpenBSD and it's been a hair > > raising experience so far :/ > > > > I set up a basic install in Vmware and the install was a little tricky, > > but I managed to get it. OpenBSD may be a little more for me to swallow > > right now as I'm only familiar with linux, but I'm not going to give up > > just yet. > > > > Does OpenBSD use iptables just like linux for packet filtering? Are > > there any good front ends for it? (I really like Firehol, Shorewall, or > > a web based frontend) > > > > Nope, OpenBSD uses a system called pf. You should be able to find some > pretty good documentation out there on setting it up. I'm not sure > about good GUIs for it, but in my experience it has far more readable > syntax than iptables. You may not need a GUI or wrapper once you get > familiar with the syntax. Also, you may want to read a bit about > "IPFilter" which is the system used by FreeBSD/NetBSD. There are a lot > of similarities between pf and IPFilter, and many of the same concepts > are applicable to both. > > An example page for pf can be found here: > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/example1.html > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech >
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