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Re: IPFW Docs needed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christoph Lameter)
Sat Sep 2 23:32:32 1995
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 1995 14:35:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>
To: Al Longyear <longyear@netcom.com>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199508290257.TAA11129@netcom20.netcom.com>
On Mon, 28 Aug 1995, Al Longyear wrote:
> The other thing which took me a while to decipher was that the
> 'blocking' firewall rules applied to all frames received by the
> system. This included frames which were to be forwarded to the 'green'
> (internal) network as well as frames for the firewall system.
This means you cannot block an outgoing telnet session!!!
I tried to block certain accesses FROM the firewall to the rest of the
system but that does not work at all. Seems that Blocking does only refer
to incoming frames!
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