Building Firewall with OpenBSD and PF
When I rst started using OpenBSD sometime in 1999, it certainly wasn't
because I wanted to write a book about it. All I needed was a stable server
for my home network, something I could congure and forget about. I tried
all obvious suspects: FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and four or ve different
Linux distributions, My choice was OpenBSD, because it installed
without problems, was easy to congure, and did not have the infuriating
problems with NFS that plagued me on Linux at that time. FreeBSD and
NetBSD lost their race at the installation stage, after they failed to recognize
some pieces of the hardware I was using. It......
