Solved a *bsd users favourite firewall solution?

Freebsd comes with several built in firewall solutions, I am wondering which one is your favourite and why.

Care to enlighten me?
 
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In short, IPFilter is old and it still is in Base just because Juniper needs it and it seems pretty hard to move a firewall to ports[1]. PF has a more pleasant syntax (debatable), more user frienly. IPFW is the FreeBSD native firewall, the fastest (but just relevant for large installations with huge traffic) but the syntax is terrible (debatable).

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IPFW is also quite scriptable!

[1] but IIRC there is someone working on it.
 
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drhowarddrfine Thank you for that. That would be one in twenty references for an industry-focused Inquisition. One must check other valuable and reputable sources. Most of such outlets now contain water-down information. HN is becoming more like it.
 
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