Ipfirewall

ipfirewall (or ipfw ) is a software module which provides functions of Pare-feu for FreeBSD and Mac OS X.

A bearing towards the systems Windows 2000/XP/2003 was carried out: WIPFW (See the description of French WIPFW on Framasoft).

The order user making it possible to configure ipfirewall is ipfw .

Qualities

ipfirewall can filter the connections created by a local process according to UID or GID of the creative process, which can be useful to authorize/prohibit the access to certain beaches of addresses/protocols for certain people.

Defects

Like the majority of the free Fire walls X, Ipfirewall does not manage IPsec, the proxys, IDS, the waiters of Authentification and full with other technologies which commercial avoid-fires have the practice to manage. To do that it is necessary to use other modules BSD which are configured separately.

See too

Other free avoid-fires

Linux Netfilter, free fire wall of the cores Linux 2.4 and 2.6.
Linux Ipchains, free fire wall of the core Linux 2.2.
Packet Filter or PF , free fire wall of OpenBSD.
IPFilter or IPF , free fire wall of BSD and Solaris 10.

External bonds

FreeBSD - ipfw handbook
FreeBSD - ipfw HOWTO
FreeBSD - ipfw man pages
FreeBSD - bridging man pages
FreeBSD - dummynet (traffic shaper, bandwidth to manage and delay emulator) man pages
dummynet description

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