Re: Firewalls Compared

[Devdas Bhagat <devdas () dvb homelinux org>]

On 30/06/04 21:43 -0400, George Capehart wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 June 2004 13:48, Devdas Bhagat allegedly wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > Uh, no. A firewall is a firewall is a firewall. A firewall consists
> > of various components, some of which may even be absent.
>
> I'm sorry, I've been up a very long time today and I'm slap happy.  
> Maybe it's me, but this sounds like a firewall that Joseph Heller would 
> have put into _Catch_22_.  Works sort of like Yossarian's attempts to 
> see Major Major . . .  :)
Packet filters, routers with ACLs, application layer gateways are
all part of firewalls for example. They may not necessarily all be present.

Devdas Bhagat
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