From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ramin Dousti Subject: Re: Need help have some questions... Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 23:24:04 -0400 Sender: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: <20030825032403.GA26945@cannon.eng.us.uu.net> References: <20030818205223.GA3993@cannon.eng.us.uu.net> <20030823205158.60796.qmail@web40210.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030823205158.60796.qmail@web40210.mail.yahoo.com> Errors-To: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: SBlaze Cc: nf On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 01:51:58PM -0700, SBlaze wrote: > A question to Ralf about the second lawyer of a firewall. Is a circut relay > also known as a bridge? In general: layer 1 -> repeater layer 2 -> bridge layer 3 -> router Now, what does the circuit relay do? Does it just amplify the signal? Or does it terminate, reconstruct and forward the information? > > 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) ? No. What I said is: Filtering based on the specifics of an application is best done by a specialized module which knows enough about that particular protocol. Ramin > > 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 > > ===== > "Winky is not knowing how sir, winky is not knowing how?" -=Winky / Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire=-" > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com