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Chapter 12SummaryFreeBSD's IPFW and PF firewalls let you turn your host into a complicated firewallwith many features that are available on commercial grade firewall appliances. Allyou need to do is to get familiar with different configuration options of the firewallsoftware of your choice, and start writing your firewall rules.IPFW is the legacy firewall package having many features, and ease of configurationwhile PF is a newer firewall package with more features and better flexibility.As a systems or network administration, having at least basic knowledge about anyof these two firewall packages and their features, is a must.[ 201 ]