Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 22:27:12 -0600 (CST) From: James Wyatt <jwyatt@rwsystems.net> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NATD: failed to write packet back (Permission denied) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10011262225220.96015-100000@bsdie.rwsystems.net> In-Reply-To: <200011270130.UAA88239@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Sun, 26 Nov 2000 14:19:07 -0800, Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.ORG> said: > > But that's for my private home network. I trust myself to only send out > > useful, productive packets. :) > > I must admit to being puzzled by home firewalls, at least among this > group of people. If you've got some promiscuous operating system from > Washington State running, I can somewhat understand doing that. If > you just have a single machine, which is under your direct control, > then doing packet filtering is just silly. If your machine is > properly configured and secured, filtering out packets which would > otherwise be thrown away anyway serves no useful purpose. (If the [ ... ] Some of us set our home networks (really small office) to use this stuff so that when we build a "real" (for money and protecting another company) we know how everything operates and have something to compare to should something not work the way we expect. - Jy@ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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