[2447] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Packet filtering routers...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evil Pete)
Wed Jul 17 23:39:59 1996
To: Mike Dilworth <mjd@soi.city.ac.uk>
cc: "www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu" <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
From: Evil Pete <shipley@dis.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 17 Jul 1996 23:44:40 +0300.
<01BB743E.99C32CC0@ppp27.hol.gr>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 18:14:23 -0700
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
>hi all
>
>I know this may not be the best place to ask..but i have been to the
>cisco web site and found it all a little too much for my poor modem
>connection :-(
>
>Most decent routers will allow you to filter on both IP addresses (source and
>destination) as well as source and destination ports. The combination can
>give you control over which services can be used from the outside world to
>different machines.
>what i want is a packet filtering router that also checks the ack bit
>and doesnt do any automatic reordering of filter rules...any sugestions ?
look at Livingston (www.Livingston.com)
(I use the PM2ER-10 at home)