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Re: Hacking a firewall



IP-Filter (available for Linux too) supports stateful inspections !

Viele Grüße
             Jens

http://friedrich-net.de

----- Original Message -----
From: Aviram Jenik <aviram@securiteam.com>
To: Simon Martin <smartin@isys.cl>; Debian-Firewall List
<debian-firewall@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 8:58 PM
Subject: Re: Hacking a firewall


> >
> > 1) Comparison of Debian Vs Firewall-1
> > My major competition here is Firewall-1. Anyone know of any comparison
of
> > features / robustness / weaknesses?
>
> FW-1 Uses stateful inspection, which is way more secure then the packet
> filtering techniques of ipchains and others. It's not right to compare
> between the two, because the question is cost-effectiveness. FW-1 is must
> more full-featured/robust/strong, etc but costs 5 digits to buy.
>



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