[1689] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Linux router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Woods)
Thu Jan 25 19:52:03 1996
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 15:52:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Chris Woods <cjwoods@paladin.com>
To: Harald Milz <hm@seneca.linux.de>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0tezVH-000NGjC@linux.de>
On Wed, 24 Jan 1996, Harald Milz wrote:
> If you want to have _some_ security, you must have both: a packet filter and
> a proxy application gateway. BTW does the Linux packet filtering code in
Of course, the ideal situation is to have both (in fact, 2 filters with a
perimeter net in between). However, this is not reasonable in an ISP
environment, other than possibly to protect the internal LAN (i.e.
accounting systems, credit card/customer lists, etc).
Chris Woods Systems Administrator
cjwoods@paladin.com Paladin Computing Solutions
617-273-4226 http://www.paladin.
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