Category:Firewalls
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- Netfilter
: The current Linux kernel packet filter/firewall
- Netfilter is a powerful packet filter which is implemented in the standard Linux kernel. The userspace iptables tool is used for configuration. It now supports packet filtering (stateless or stateful), all different kinds of NAT (Network Address Translation) and packet mangling.
- http://www.netfilter.org
- pf
: OpenBSD's innovative packet filter
- Packet Filter (or pf) is OpenBSD's system for filtering TCP/IP traffic and doing Network Address Translation. pf is also capable of normalizing and conditioning TCP/IP traffic and providing bandwidth control and packet prioritization. pf has been a part of the GENERIC OpenBSD kernel since OpenBSD 3.0, and is currently being integrated into FreeBSD and NetBSD.
- http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/index.html
- IPFilter : NetBSD/FreeBSD's packet filter
- IPFilter is a software package that can be used to provide Network Address Translation and TCP/IP packet-filtering based firewall services under Unix operating systems. It is currently the default packet filter under NetBSD and FreeBSD, and can also be installed on Solaris/SunOS, HP-UX, Irix, and others.
- http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/
