Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:23:43 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: ru@ucb.crimea.ua, dg@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipflow and ipfirewall Message-ID: <36EBFEAF.C37CFCE6@softweyr.com> References: <19990314162419.A10242@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> <3441.921422198@verdi.nethelp.no>
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sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:
>
> The way I see it, "fast forward" would be for router boxes at the core
> of your network. Here you're concerned about speed. Firewall filtering
> you normally want to do at the edges, where you're not so concerned about
> speed.
Apparently you see only networks where all users are equally trusted.
Most don't. Of course, if you were really worried about security,
you wouldn't be using shared media and routers, would you?
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Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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