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Re: explanation and code for stream.c issues

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Fichtner)
Sun Jan 23 17:03:31 2000

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Date:         Fri, 21 Jan 2000 14:31:08 -0500
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On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 11:25:26AM -0600, Tim Yardley wrote:
> If you use ipfilter...

...and if you don't, you should...
	http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html

...and if you're stuck, read our fine HOWTO...
	http://www.obfuscation.org/ipf/ipf-howto.txt

> Note: If you use IPFW, there is no immediate way to solve this problem due
> to the fact that it is a stateless firewall.  If you are getting attacked,
> then temporarily use ipfilter to stop it.

...and if you want to convert your FreeBSD rc.firewall from IPFW to
IPFilter, Brendan Conoboy <synk@swcp.com> has been working on a patch
to add "easy ipf" to your system.   This patch can be found at:

	http://www.swcp.com/~synk/ipfmerge.patch

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