From owner-freebsd-security Sun Oct 8 9:26:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FF3B37B502 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 09:26:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13iJQh-0000WK-00; Sun, 08 Oct 2000 10:36:03 -0600 Message-ID: <39E0A273.E2243C9A@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 10:36:03 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Fumerola Cc: Gregory Sutter , Craig Cowen , "freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Check Point FW-1 References: <39DEBB51.E51BACFB@allmaui.com> <20001006230628.L23587@klapaucius.zer0.org> <39E010FE.8CAA2CB1@softweyr.com> <20001008034330.X38472@jade.chc-chimes.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bill Fumerola wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 12:15:26AM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > > > Others have mentioned a couple of commercial alternatives; add NetMax and > > GnatBox (right?) to this list. Also, be sure to get a copy of my paper > > for BSDCon explaining why my company decided to use BSD and ipfilter to > > build the firewall of the future on. (Sorry, it's not a corporate firewall > > and is not suited for your use.) > > As long as Wes is plugging his talk, mine will be talking about ipfw and stopping > attacks and such. Guido van Rooij is also giving an ipfilter talk I'm looking > forward to attending. Firewalls are well represented at this years BSDcon. Sorry, Bill, I should've mentioned your talk and Guido's. I presented mine as a refutation of the orinal writer's "the bosses want to go with a commercial solution". This is going to be a great Con, and surprise surprise security is THE hot topic this year. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message