Re: Need help have some questions...

[SBlaze <dagent.geo@yahoo.com>]

Going to try to fit all my comments for this thread into one email and hope
everyone reads. Here we go.

First off I would like to say a big thanks to Ralf and Ramin. They gave really
good explanations that I needed to see why this hasn't been addressed. While I
still would like to see this kind of functionality in iptables I can see why it
is not.

To those stressing that it would be too much on the CPU and memory I have to
wonder how valid this is. I know it would certainly increase the load but I do
not believe it would overload most systems.

Ralf made some really good points. He says I should use a proxy. Ok so how do I
go about proxying my two web sites that are hosted with apache? Honestly I'm
not being sacrastic I really don't know. Going along with what Ramin says is
the third level of a fully implemented firewall(the application level) am I to
assume then that it is then to fall to a proxy(I again don't know what sort of
proxy I need here...not sure squid is what I need) or I would really like to
ask should it fall to apache(if so anyone know of how to define what apache
logs?)

A question to Ralf about the second lawyer of a firewall. Is a circut relay
also known as a bridge?

Also a question to Ramin. You make note in that last post of basically dealing
with the HTTP protocol on the HTTP application level.... are you referreing to
web server(apache) ?

Thanks to all who are helping out. I see a soloution coming about. With a
little more help I and some others I know may get there.

Thanks
SBlaze

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"Winky is not knowing how sir, winky is not knowing how?" -=Winky / Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire=-"

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