[ale] stateful firewall?

Jonathan Rickman jonathan at xcorps.net
Wed Oct 17 09:47:19 EDT 2001


On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, John Wells wrote:

> Is iptables and NETFILTER the same thing?  It would
> seem so...looking at the downloads from
> netfilter.samba.org.
>
> You say reasonably well.  Could you elaborate on
> *reasonably* ;-)?

It's not going to perform as well as a hardware based solution, but given
the limitations of PC based firewalls...it performs quite well.

-- 
Jonathan Rickman
X Corps Security
http://www.xcorps.net


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