On Friday 21 June 2002 6:33 pm, Krish Ahya wrote: > Hi all, > > I was just wondering, is Netfilter as good as Cisco's PIX and Checkpoint's > Firewall-1, if not better?
Yes. > Also I'm wondering say if I have a dmz and allow people to come into a > server on port 80, will netfilter inspect the packet on all 7 layers of the > OSI model and make sure that it is actually a http packet and following the > rules and protocol specifications of http? No. At least one of the above answers is merely my personal opinion. Antony.
