Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 20:10:00 +0100 From: mouss <usebsd@free.fr> To: Manfred Petz <pm@aber.warum.net>, "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com> Cc: Alexander Gavrilov <agv@haba.uven.ru>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TIS Firewall Tookit Message-ID: <4.3.0.20001208200512.0577a150@pop.free.fr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.10012061544350.20839-100000@saturn.innonet.a t> References: <20001206081015.B61027@spawn.nectar.com>
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At 15:50 06/12/00 +0100, Manfred Petz wrote: >On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > >| Neither SOCKS nor delegate are firewall software. The latter, in >| particular, is probably one of the least secure pieces of proxy software >| ever written. > >Accepted. Do you know a (free) alternative to FWTK which is comparable in >terms of ease of use, straightforward source and which implements similar >functionality (e.g. the permit/deny rules in netperm-table)? the plug-gw, from the FWTK, is just far better than delegate! don't let htto-gw and smap descrepancies make you conclude that the whole thing is to throw away... for smtp, smap approach breaks much things, and your best way is to use a secure server instead. you can then put a plug-gw to only accept mail that goes through this server... cheers, mouss To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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