Re: Distributed Firewall

["Nathan Ryan Milford" <nmilford () polyprep org>]

pfsyncd

http://www.benzedrine.cx/pf/msg01897.html

http://www.greyhats.org/openbsd/

syncs states among firewalls and you can use freevrrpd tomake redundancy or
you can find some other way of doing it.  it works fine, I don't use it in
production as I have no need for it but, I have played with it in a lab
environment and it works quite well.

-nathan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kendric" <Kendric () hotpop com>
To: <security-basics () lists securityfocus com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 10:12 AM
Subject: Distributed Firewall


> Hi, just wondering if any of you guys heard of this concept of distributed
> firewall? I have done some research on it and found it to be quite a
> wonderful concept into bringing the firewall platform to each
client/server
> end with a central management policy. In other words, it is like having a
> personal firewall on each individual machine, but centrally managed by a
> remote management console. In this way, we will not have to put any trust
> even on the machines on the intranet. Any comments?
>
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