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Re: hurd does NOT need /hurd



On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:42:32PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 09:28:36AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> > (Truely ironic since debian doesn't use firewalls
> > by default, and doesn't have any immediate plans for a release with the
> > "iptables-style firewalling" mentioned at one point to be included in a
> > default kernel.)
> 
> *blink* iptables aren't in the default 2.4 kernel?

We don't install a 2.4 kernel by default. We explicitly default to 2.2.
We have a 2.4 kernel as an *option*.

> For reference, I'd consider a tool that lets you choose to deny packets
> based on (source-network and dest-port) to be adequate as far as that

Well, tcp wrappers does that.

-- 
Mike Stone

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