hi!
im looking for the diference between ipfw and iptables. Many people say to ipfw is more secure of iptables, but they cant explain why that.
If ipfw is what I think it is, than only difference is better connection tracking (it tracks TCP window numbers). However, Netfilter got that suppor recently as well (as a patch), and it seems that it will be standard part of Linux kernel as of 2.6.9 (at least by looking into the ChangeLog, I might be wrong).
Other than that, I don't see why would one be more secure than another. So I'd say they are becoming about the same as security goes.
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