Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 12:29:09 +1000 (EST) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina) Cc: stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua, firewalls@GreatCircle.COM, security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Q on using "netpipes" for firewall maintanance tasks Message-ID: <199604290232.TAA13913@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199604281655.JAA00331@precipice.shockwave.com> from "Paul Traina" at Apr 28, 96 09:55:10 am
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In some mail from Paul Traina, sie said: > > > From: "Andrew V. Stesin" <stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua> > Subject: Q on using "netpipes" for firewall maintanance tasks > Hello people, > > I'm now in a search for safer but convenient rsh(1) replacement for some > tasks of firewall day-to-day operation, i.e. gathering some stats, etc. > to an inside machine. Firewall is composed of FreeBeasts (I like > that spelling of FreeBSD! :) no fancy black Cisco boxen for filtering > routers. > > ... > > So, I'm seriously considering netpipes as a transport -- only a server > part is on the firewall machine(s), bound to a preselected set > of ports, with /bin/sh script attached to it. > > Where am I wrong? > > Not buying the cisco box. Is this just a blatant marketting plug or is there a reason behind this ?
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