From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 10 00:11:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA07447 for current-outgoing; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 00:11:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from wcc.wcc.net (wcc.wcc.net [208.6.232.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA07437 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 00:10:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from piquan@wcc.wcc.net) Received: from detlev.UUCP (ppp72.wcc.net [208.6.232.72]) by wcc.wcc.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA17662; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 02:07:45 -0600 (CST) Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.8.8/8.8.7) id CAA23756; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 02:10:12 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 02:10:12 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199801100810.CAA23756@detlev.UUCP> To: daveh@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU CC: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199801092229.OAA04841@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> (daveh@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Subject: Re: Firewall in kernel? From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <199801092229.OAA04841@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> Looks like you compiled the firewall into your kernel without >> enabling the loading of the script in /etc/rc.conf. If you are >> going to compile firewall stuff into your kernel, I *highly* >> recommend using the default to accept rule option at least till you >> get to know things better. > and to imagine, that Sun Microsystems only just today > annoucned plans to put firewall support in their workstations. I haven't used Solaris in a few years, and when I did I was first discovering the joys and agonies of Unix administration, but considering the (at least former if not current) popularity of Suns for Internet work, I am suprised. Has there been a third-party tool to tackle firewalling that has been used instead? -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped