Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 16:26:18 +1100 (EDT) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: cmott@srv.net (Charles Mott) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ipdivert & masqd Message-ID: <199701300526.VAA20592@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970129191414.1348B-100000@darkstar> from "Charles Mott" at Jan 29, 97 07:30:06 pm
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In some mail from Charles Mott, sie said: > > > > My syntax may have been a little unclear. It is just that I had never > > > heard of the TIS ... Gauntlet program. Is it just an FTP client, or > > > something more advanced? If source code is available, I think that some > > > may wish to update the code. > > > > Firewall product. > > > > The point is, it isn't Gauntlet or the Firewall Toolkit which is doing > > anything wrong, it is the "transparent proxy" which makes bad assumptions > > (although 99% of the time it gets away with them). > > > > Darren > > > > I've seen quite a bit of feedback from several continents on the software I > have written. In particular, any time I have made a mistake, I have > been *very* quickly informed by users. I have yet to see any complaints > from users about ftp handling. > > In any event, it would be unusual to have such a firewall behind the > packet aliasing software I have written. It would be interesting to see > whether the authors of the firewall product you mention were being > deliberately "difficult". Nobody was, just the Firewall-1/Linux implementations are imperfect. > Your comments are interesting, but your attitude is not constructive in > my view. This probably reflects my frustration of how difficult it is to implement properly. Darren
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