On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:09:22AM -0400, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 03:58:05PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > By first reading this I agreed with you. After pondering about this > > issue I claim that the Hurd should not have IP filtering features. > > I think you are nuts. Firewalling is just a small part of a much > grander scheme, which involves NAT and is very useful. Even if you > reject the idea of a firewall, there is no need to put in any extra effort > into trying to not have this feature. Everybody thinks I am nuts, I think it's needless to say it. I only claimed that the Hurd should not have IP filtering as this discussion is clearly only going about that. I never said the Hurd shouldn't have support for things as NAT and QOS, but that is part of routing and not firewalling if I'm right. (And I think NAT is only needed because IPv4 doesn't have enough addresses and I don't see any need for it with IPv6) Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org IRC ID: jeroen@openprojects GNU supporter - http://www.gnu.org
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