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Re: Linux Firewalls/Routers - 3rd Round



On one hand, I wouldn't say that the threat is minor; There are many
services which use high ports (X, NFS, IRC, XFS, etc.), and it will not
be nice to find one day that a hacker used a buffer overflow or another
hole in one of them to break into your server.

On the other hand, we can't just stop everything because of this fear.
It is a little strange for me to believe that this threat is real,
exploitable, and that nobody has fixed it yet. I believe that one of
the hidden fixes to the recent kernels resolved the problem, and even
if not - it will be fixed soon, and all we will need to do is to
upgrade the kernel.

So back to my original question:

What do you know about the various Linux 2.4 based firewalls/routers?
Do you have any experience with them?

Please read the full question (in the starting message of this thread)
before answering.

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Eli Marmor
marmor@netmask.it
CTO, Founder
Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd.
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