thanks Mike.
What's your opinion regarding the level of security between
linux/netfilter/ipchains versus a BSD box? Am I splitting hairs?
tia
charles
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.
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