On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 02:35:54PM -0500, Charles Galpin wrote:
> 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.

        That's a feature of netfilter.  Netfilter is standard for the
2.4 kernels and available as a patch for 2.2 kernels.  It is not a feature
of ipchains.

> Anyone?

> tia
> charles

        Mike
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