comparision of firewalling on Linux and FreeBSD

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Date: 06/30/04

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Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 23:17:50 +0530

    Looking for considered comparisions of firewalling on Linux and FreeBSD.

    I am especially interested in learning about ease of connection tracking
      and of getting packets into user space for analysis via scripts.

    Thanks
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