On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 Daniel.Ryde@mimer.se wrote:
> Is it possible to use Linux as a state firewall, like masq but without
> address translation?
It's possible with the upcoming kernel 2.4, but as far as I know not with
2.2.x.
in 2.4 there is a new firewalling-environment called netfilter - have a
look at http://netfilter.kernelnotes.org/
> What I mean is that I want it to work like an ordinar router without
> address translation, but block all packets from the outside that has
> not been initiated from the inside and also handle the special
> cases like FTP that masq does.
>
> Possible? How?
c'ya
sven
--The Internet treats censorship as a routing problem, and routes around it. (John Gilmore on http://www.cygnus.com/~gnu/)
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