On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 03:26 PM, Eagle wrote:
> Well, a software firewall sitting on top of OSI layer 4 and below OSI
> layer 5 would be OK. For that matter, so would a software firewall
> between layers 2 & 3 or 3 & 4. But that would have to be built into
> the IP stack (most likely by the OS vendor), and that's not how the
> "software firewall" ZoneAlarm works. So yes, since ZoneAlarm is a
> layer 7 application, the traffic does get onto the machine.
So does IPFW in Unix work at a lower level?
> It is conceivable that someone could write a "software firewall" such
> as what I describe, but it's not likely.
Unless it's Unix.
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