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Re: Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall
From: Mike Mentges <mike () mentges org>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 14:23:31 -0400 (EDT)
The best way to make a firewall with a win2k machine is to fdisk, format, and install a *BSD or *nix on it ;-P Preferably OpenBSD. Windows is far too insecure to be dependent upon for fire wall. Just an educated professional opinion, we follow the rule to not allow any Windows machines to be directly connected to an unprotected network. This is the best way to configure your network, if you leave windows connected to the network you are leaving yourself open for attacks. It is also much easier to compile, install, configure and troubleshoot Snort on the above mentioned machines. :-) Hope this helps! Mike Mentges On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Junaid wrote:
i HAVE To work in windows platform preferrably win2k and ... i want to make a firewall for a network. say i have two interfaces (NICs) on a PC one connected to my private network and other to the internet. can i use libpcap/wpcap to capture all the packets and then filter all the packets according to some user defined rules and then drop the packets violating any rule while leting others go. currently i know that libpcap/wpcap can only be used to sniff packets but cannot block packets going into the IP stack of an OS. i want that i be able to block all the packets and let go (into the protocol stack) only the packets which donot violate any rules hence making a packet filtering firewall. can anyone tell me how to achieve this with pcap or with anything else. can i get the source code for hogwash for windows...? need an urgent reply please. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo http://search.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Snort-users mailing list Snort-users () lists sourceforge net Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users Snort-users list archive: http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=snort-users
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Current thread:
- Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Junaid (Apr 15)
- Re: Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Mike Mentges (Apr 15)
- Re: Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Paul Schmehl (Apr 15)
- Re: {SPAM} Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Matt Kettler (Apr 15)
- Re: Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Patrick S. Harper (Apr 15)
- Re: Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Jason (Apr 15)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Junaid (Apr 15)
- RE: Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall bmcdowell (Apr 15)
- RE: Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Robert Reid (Apr 15)
- RE: Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Michael Steele (Apr 16)
- RE: Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Mike Mentges (Apr 16)
- RE: Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Matt Kettler (Apr 16)
- RE: Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Michael Steele (Apr 16)
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- Re: Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Mike Mentges (Apr 15)