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> Others have added ipfw support to do NAT and firewalling - I'm going to add configuration rules for NAT, IPFW and routing soon so it's all integrated.

I thought that most of the BSD world had transitioned to PF at this point. I checked FreeBSD handbook and indeed all three firewalls are supported: IPF, IPFW, PF. Are the older ones still really relevant?

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ipfw's popular, well supported, and not going anywhere. It's still the default FreeBSD firewall[1], PC-BSD recently switched their default to it[2], and DragonFlyBSD recently rewrote it[3].

1: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/etc/rc.firewall?view=ma...

2: https://forums.pcbsd.org/showthread.php?tid=19683

3: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/ipfw2/

pfsense is using PF, and I'm not going to try and take any steam away from them.

ipfw is small, lightweight and fine for what I'm experimenting with.

If people want to include pf and send me a pull request with that as an option then by all means, please do!

pfSense sucks. PF sucks too.

glare

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