Firewall Wizards mailing list archives
Re: Dark Reading: Firewalls Ready for Evolutionary Shift
From: ArkanoiD <ark () eltex net>
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 03:54:57 +0300
I was pushed several years ago into implementing the "universal heuristic proxy" in openfwtk - like something that gets diverted socket (from packet filter or socks) and starts proper application proxy justifying which one to run using port number and protocol pattern heuristics. I felt it is not a good idea - cannot really figure out why, but i just felt that way, so i stick with default port number binding as usual. Maybe i am wrong. Seems that others bumped into same idea, no surprise as it is pretty obvious. Must be almost the only way to handle p2p properly if you need it for some reason. _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () listserv icsalabs com https://listserv.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
Current thread:
- Re: Dark Reading: Firewalls Ready for Evolutionary Shift ArkanoiD (Dec 01)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Dark Reading: Firewalls Ready for Evolutionary Shift Jim Seymour (Dec 01)
- Re: Dark Reading: Firewalls Ready for Evolutionary Shift Thomas Ptacek (Dec 05)
- Message not available
- Re: Dark Reading: Firewalls Ready for Evolutionary Shift Marcus J. Ranum (Dec 05)
- Message not available
- Re: Dark Reading: Firewalls Ready for Evolutionary Shift Frank Knobbe (Dec 06)
- Re: Dark Reading: Firewalls Ready for Evolutionary Shift david (Dec 06)
- Re: Dark Reading: Firewalls Ready for Evolutionary Shift Dave Piscitello (Dec 10)
- Re: Dark Reading: Firewalls Ready for Evolutionary Shift ArkanoiD (Dec 11)
- Re: Dark Reading: Firewalls Ready for Evolutionary Shift Darren Reed (Dec 10)