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Re: Comparisons between Router ACLs and Firewalls
From: David Pick <d.m.pick () qmul ac uk>
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 23:16:48 +0000
There are several different "firewall" technologies that work at different layers in the protocol stack. One of these is "packet filtering" and router ACLs are just one particular implementation of this general technique. They are, in the real world, an important implementation because there are usually more routers than there are firewalls in a network and using this allows more conotrol points to be used and also allow for more depth to your defences. In the network I control at my place of work we're replacing Cisco routers by PCs running FreeBSD and IPFilter so that we can have better controls at more levels in the protocol stack than is provided by simple ACLs. -- David Pick _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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