From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 27 21:52:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37DA137B405 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 21:52:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16JpwZ-0002Lh-00 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 05:52:36 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Postfix, from userid 500) id DE9BB116E; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 06:52:34 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 06:52:34 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: FBSD Questions Subject: Re: Block WWW advertizing banners & auto spawn web pages using ipfilter or ipfw Message-ID: <20011228055234.GE12190@raggedclown.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 11:10:07PM -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > Is there a way using firewalls to identify www advertising Banners & the > auto spawning of wed pages so they can be blocked? > No. A firewall knows squat about the applications that use the packets it is protecting you against. You need something working at the application/proxy level, not the network level. But the squillion suggestions that you have in this thread tells you how you might do such a thing :) -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message