[Gllug] Firewall distro

[David Abbishaw]

Ahem!  Last time I checked SP2 added this feature and made the firewall
actually start much earlier.  Its been my experience on XP that it
definitely blocks outgoing or at least prompts the option to the user.


Message: 9
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 18:37:53 +0000
From: Tethys <tet at createservices.com>
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Firewall distro 
To: Greater London Linux User Group <gllug at gllug.org.uk>
Message-ID: <200502051837.j15IbrYD002814 at isengard.accucard.com>


"David Abbishaw" writes:

>Admittedly not better than a discreet piece of hardware doing just
>the work of a firewall but not bad, since SP2 in XP probably as good
>as IPtables in linux.

Ahem. Last time I looked, you couldn't even block outbound traffic.
Don't get me wrong, the firewall in SP2 is a huge step forward for
Windows users. But it's nowhere near iptables yet, and it's a joke
compared to pf.

Tet




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