mobility and firewall

Lance Lassetter lance at uclinux.info
Sat Jun 4 00:15:14 CDT 2005


On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 22:36 -0500, Carl Karsten wrote:
> Carl Karsten wrote:
>  >what problem would the firewall solve?
> 
> > On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 04:39 +0200, Ivan Krstic wrote:
> >>What is your threat model? 
> 
> The closest thing to an answer is:
> 
> > (5) drop malformed packets?  yes, i've seen these type of attacks of
> > late, if this type rule applies.
> 
> Can you show how this is a problem?
> Ideally something on http://securityfocus.com
> 
> Showing a solution does not define the problem.
> 
> Carl K
> 
> 

I do apologize.  I'm just in the past so sold on firewalling solutions
that it struck me as very odd ubuntu ships with none by default.  I am
wrong, sorry for taking up you guys time.

Lance(stuNNed)




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