Simon White wrote:
> 05-May-02 at 18:19, Robert Davis (bob@bobsbits.net) wrote :
>
>>Hi
>>
>>I am new to squid. I installed squid because I needed to test a program I
>>wrote with a firewall. I looked and found squid to be the only firewall
>>installed by default on linux.
>
>
> Squid is not a firewall. It is an HTTP proxy. You could, at a pinch, call
> it an "application layer filter" because it can control access to HTTP
> resources for the network based on application data in HTTP packets.
Sorry substitute the word "proxy" for "firewall" above. Thats what I
meant to write. I have been using a hand made firewall and nat
forwarding script with ipchains for a 2 years now.
>
> Linux has come pre-installed with firewalls since the 2.0 series. 2.0.x
> had ipfwadm, 2.2.x had ipchains, and 2.4.x has iptables. The 2.4.x series
> iptables supports stateful inspection, full nat connection tracking, and
> many other very useful things like packet mangling for advanced routing.
> Try finding that for free anywhere else :)
>
> Regards,
>
Received on Mon May 06 2002 - 07:50:27 MDT
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