Re: Programming Firewalls

[Matt Curtin <cmcurtin () interhack net>]

"John Byrne" <COM40017 () PAT ITCARLOW IE> writes:

> I've got the source code for the FWTK but it's not all that easy to
> port over Windows.  Any help would be greatly appreciated because
> I've ran into all dead ends so far.

Use Unix.  Not only are all of the tools like fwtk there, as well as
things like ipf, ipfw, and friends, but you have complete source code
the system so you can figure out exactly what's going on, and really
understand what's happening.

And you can get very high quality Unix implementations completely
without cost.  They'll run faster and better than NT on the same
hardware for this kind of stuff.

I'm not being a Unix bigot here.  I'm serious.  Using proprietary,
closed systems for trying to learn how stuff works is insane.
Especially when it costs more and has less functionality than the free 
stuff available from the world that invented the technology in the
first place.

Go download FreeBSD and have a blast.  http://www.freebsd.org/

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Matt Curtin cmcurtin () interhack net http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/