I'm about to reconfigure my home network with a seperate firewall box.
It's been long overdue. I have a friend who runs a freeBSD box as his
firewall and was very impressed by the fact that it (ipfw i think ) has a
'stateful' firewall. It allows packets in that are a response to an
internal request (at least that's my understanding of it - probably
grossly oversimplified or butchered in some way). It *looks* like a
simpler and tighter solution.
Anyway, this has led me to be "tempted" to use it too. But before I go
wasting a lot of time learning how to admin BSD (since the whole point is
to be secure, I'd better get good at it too), I'd like to know where
ipchains/linux stands on this issue for 2.2.x kernels. I've done some
searching but haven't come up with much. I thought I'd read soemthing
about the 2.4 kernel supporting this.
Anyone?
tia
charles
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