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Re: security/sshguard firewall option preferred on NetBSD



Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost> writes:

> Exactly one of the following firewall options is required:
>         sshguard-aix     Select AIX firewall backend for SSHGuard.
>         sshguard-hosts   Select host firewall backend for SSHGuard.
>         sshguard-ipfilter       Select IPFilter firewall backend for SSHGuard.
>         sshguard-ipfw    Select ipfw firewall backend for SSHGuard.
>         sshguard-iptables       Select iptables firewall backend for SSHGuard.
>         sshguard-null    Select null firewall backend for SSHGuard.
>         sshguard-pf      Select PF firewall backend for SSHGuard.
>
> These options are enabled by default:
>         sshguard-ipfilter
>
> Seems pkgsrc has made ipfilter a default choice.

Don't overinterpret.  That should be read as "the person who set the
default option for sshguard chose ipfilter, at some point in time".
Until fairly recently, ipfilter was the standard approach on NetBSD.
Now it's the old/stable approach, and npf is the modern approach.

> Is this a preferred choice on NetBSD? Any specific guidance on pros and
> cons of various choices for NetBSD?

ipfilter is a reasonable choice.   I would recommend npf for new
firewalls.

It would be nice for sshguard to:

  have an npf backend (upstream)

  only have optoins for firewalls that make sense per OS (pkg)

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