william fitzgerald <wfitzgerald@xxxxxxxx> writes: > "Is Netfilter obsolete in an Enterprise Web Service Environment" > please let me know. The discussion about whether packet filters really deserve the word "firewall" applied to them goes back at least as far as mid 90's. You can probably find flame wars with Gauntlet and Raptor Eagle/Symantec Enterprise Firewall on one side and Firewall-1 and PIX on the other. Anyway, with the Level-7 match or Deep Packet Inspection or whichever buzz words you prefer, packet filters are closer in capabilities than ever before. At the same time application level proxies are faster than ever before. It's hard to pick a winner. /Benny -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
