[1697] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Linux router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Thu Jan 25 23:45:56 1996
From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
To: hm@seneca.linux.de (Harald Milz)
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 12:17:29 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0tezVH-000NGjC@linux.de> from "Harald Milz" at Jan 24, 96 08:20:00 am
> 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
> the latest 1.3.50s still sort firewall entries iaw some algorithm instead
> of allowing the sysadmin to have full control over the sequence of the
> filter entries? Alan?
Yes and it still wants changing. You can now write your own firewall loadable
modules however.
Alan
