Subject: Re: IPv4 and IPv6
To: None <itojun@itojun.org>
From: Takahiro Kambe <taca@sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp>
List: current-users
Date: 07/06/1999 01:05:13
Good night.
In message <21617.931190154@coconut.itojun.org>
on Tue, 06 Jul 1999 00:55:54 +0900,
Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@itojun.org> wrote:
> - NetBSD's IPv4 filtering code compress states very well (= code
> is complex) and is not straightforward to update it to handle IPv6
> - every *BSD has different implementation of IPv4 packet filter,
Maybe you know, NetBSD's filtering core is based on ipfilter, and it
runs with many OSs.
> Or, you may want to grab ip6fw (IPv6 packet filtering code based on
> FreeBSD 2.2.8's ipfw) from KAME/FreeBSD228, and put it into your
> kernel.
I've never evaluated or compared between ipfw and ipfilter much, but
ipfilter supports FTP proxy. So I prefer ipfilter.
Cheers.
--
Takahiro Kambe <taca@sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp>