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RE: [cobalt-users] Is this some kind of Denial Of Service Attack
- Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Is this some kind of Denial Of Service Attack
- From: Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue Oct 22 08:42:01 2002
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, aljuhani wrote:
> I have read alot about IP Chains BUT as far as I know I may need to re-compile
> the kernel during the install which I'm not good at. I want to make sure that
> install goes fine without problems. I have installed it on my experimental
> redhat linux desktop and still trying to figure out many options.
>
Do you have a RaQ3 or 4, they are OK for ipchains
Raq1/2 and Qube1/2 need to use ipfwadm, but properly setup ipfwadm is
Good!
> My PortSentry is using the TCP Wrapper but one advantage of IP-Chains is
> blocking the connection (Traffic) and by that minimizing bandwidth usage which
> is not the case of the tcpwrapper.
>
It won't save bandwidth, it will save cpu cycles though!
Gerald
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