On Thursday 05 July 2012 18:26:12 Doug wrote: > On 07/05/2012 08:31 AM, Atıf CEYLAN wrote: > > On 2012-07-05 10:05, Anthony Campbell wrote: > >> On 04 Jul 2012, Brad Alexander wrote: > >>> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 2:15 AM, Ralf Mardorf > >>> > >>> <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net <mailto:ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net>> wrote: > >>>> On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 11:19 +0800, lina wrote:
<humour> [snip Lina's request for recommendation on firewalls] [snip Ralf Mardorf's dry answer] [snip Brad Alexander's disagreement] [snip Anthony Campbell's anecdotal experience] [Atif CEYLAN's statement follows] > > Your problem is not a firewall problem. Firewall doesn't mean IPS/IDS > > or L7 Filter. Also a firewall must be a netfilter, NAT, routing etc. > > > > Inbound or outbound network traffic and packets are permitted or > > blocked/rejected or port forwarding by firewall. > > > > If there is a vulnerability on your OS or apps you must use IPS/IDS or > > L7 filter or UTM (netfilter + ips + any stuff...) IDS = Intrusion Detection System IPS = Intrusion Prevention System L7-Filter see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L7-filter UTM can be anything from "Unified Threat Management" over "University of Toronto at Mississauga (Canada)" to "Universal Transport Medium" see http://www.acronymfinder.com/UTM.html HTH SCNR GWPF [Doug's puzzled comment follows] > > For someone who doesn't understand firewalls in the first place--I'm > one, also--your answer might as well be written in Chinese! > > --doug </humour> Kind regards, Eike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201207052010.38237.zp6...@gmx.net
