Installation of FWBUILDER - Which packages to take?

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

Roger Grosswiler wrote:

> Hi,
>
> i am interessted in installing fwbuilder (for the first time) so in 
> the extras i found the following:
>
> 1) fwbuilder-2.0.5-3.i386.rpm       23-Jan-2005 21:22  1.3M
> 2) fwbuilder-ipf-2.0.5-3.i386.rpm   23-Jan-2005 21:22  161K
> 3) fwbuilder-ipfw-2.0.5-3.i386.rpm  23-Jan-2005 21:22  114K
> 4) fwbuilder-ipt-2.0.5-3.i386.rpm   23-Jan-2005 21:22  223K
> 5) fwbuilder-pf-2.0.5-3.i386.rpm    23-Jan-2005 21:22  125K
>
> i haven't installed it yet, but i think i need only packages 1) and 
> 4). Or will i miss some functionality without installing the others? I 
> did some research, and found that pf is almost used on OpenBSD, but i 
> didn't see what ipf and ipfw is differing and what they are good for.
>
> Can you help? Thaaaaaaaaaaanks :-)
> Roger
>
You will also need the fwbuilder-lib package ;)