On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 Daniel.Ryde@mimer.se wrote: > Is it possible to use Linux as a state firewall, like masq but without > address translation? It's possible with the upcoming kernel 2.4, but as far as I know not with 2.2.x. in 2.4 there is a new firewalling-environment called netfilter - have a look at http://netfilter.kernelnotes.org/ > What I mean is that I want it to work like an ordinar router without > address translation, but block all packets from the outside that has > not been initiated from the inside and also handle the special > cases like FTP that masq does. > > Possible? How? c'ya sven -- The Internet treats censorship as a routing problem, and routes around it. (John Gilmore on http://www.cygnus.com/~gnu/) - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
