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From: Nick Drage <nickd@funkyjesus.org>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: IPTABLES vs Checkpoint
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 01:11:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021127011144.C14289@funkyjesus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000801c295a2$4a9cb620$0100a8c0@covert.tdyc.com>; from rkrusty@tdyc.com on Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 04:19:36PM -0700

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 04:19:36PM -0700, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
> >AFAIK Checkpoint is not a firewall at all, but a proxy server.  This
> >clearly means that it acts like a Web/FTP/whatever server that connects
> >people in your company to the outside world by requesting Web pages over
> >HTTP and initiating FTP connections on their behalf.
> 
> This is incorrect information.  Checkpoint offers proxy capabilities
> however by default it is a stateful firewall.

Seconded.  While Firewall-1 does have some proxy server like capabilities
its main function is as a stateful firewall.

-- 
FunkyJesus System Administration Team



  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-27  1:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-26 19:28 IPTABLES vs Checkpoint Wayne de Nobrega
2002-11-26 20:53 ` Nigel Clarke
2002-11-26 22:32 ` Nix N. Nix
2002-11-26 23:19   ` Ivan E. Moore II
2002-11-27  1:11     ` Nick Drage [this message]
2002-11-27  1:13   ` Nick Drage
2002-11-27  2:17     ` Nigel Clarke
2002-11-26 22:32 ` Ben Russo
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-27  6:39 Reckhard, Tobias
2002-11-28 11:23 ` Florent AIDE
2002-11-27  6:45 Wayne de Nobrega
2002-11-27 12:06 ` Nick Drage

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