[SunHELP] Filtering with Solaris 8 x86

[Rob Staab]

Snort will do some really complicated filtering. It's available at
www.snort.org. I've compiled it for sparc Solaris, but haven't tried it on
the intel version.

- Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Erik Parker
> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 1:50 PM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunHELP] Filtering with Solaris 8 x86
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> Ok, Ipfilter doesn't cut it for me.. The box crashes every few weeks (with
> various versions).. kernel dumping because of Ip filter.
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> Is there any alternative? I basically only need to do very simple
> filtering, like blocking access to bind (aka one big ass root hole) to
> only be accessible to the polling upstream nameservers, and to ssh, so
> only allowed IP's can even hit the port.
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> Using the built in "filtering" of those softwares is not adequate..
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> Any ideas? Something inexpensive is proffered.. I could run checkpoint on
> it, but this is just a host, not a firewall.
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> Erik Parker
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