Hi, as I received some off-list flame to my reply Tue May 25 09:34:18 1999 on the question of [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I should like to add something to this. (1) Any name of some person and/or hers or his mail address is only given as the author in citation of some former mail of this person by myself. I may not know her/him and she/he not me as I suppose. The "point" in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 24 May 1999 13:13:20 -0400 was > The biggest problem with this design is not the firewall.. it's the > routing table... (2) I may have misunderstood the real problem to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> but the answer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 23 May 1999 16:32:38 -0400 may be sufficient. The mentioning of linux and ip-chains was only given as some minor suggestion to spread information. Reading the HowTo and playing with the thing may leed to some better understanding to the unknowing (me included). The historic mail of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1999-02-19 8:23:00 is found at the list history of <http://www.rustcorp.com/> to be precise. It depends on some mail to this list ( <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ) in February that stated some _serious_ _problems_ with the use of linux firewalling as it seems. That original mail was: [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Marcus J. Ranum Sent: Thursday, February 18, 1999 6:18 AM Subject: Re: NAI Security Advisory: Vulnerability in NFR 2.0.2-Research That mail shows the problem to usability of open software in regions with certain responsibilities on security needs. If the kindly reader may know anything of the needs of firewalling for heavy duty traffic sites with real security needs my mentioning of linux and PC-box will surely show that something insufficient was and is mentioned. Linux is yet no mission critical operating system, maybe never becomes one. In no way I want to start some discussion on linux here again. You had have enough of this in former time as it seems. In no way I think this list has to deal with some playground things. Firewalling is serious stuff. But the kind of some questions of others on this list show to me that not everybody may be the expert himself or herself. But you have true experts here for sure. HvS :-) - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]
