[SunHELP] Filtering with Solaris 8 x86

[Patrick Ouellet]

If you only want to do some very simple filtering you can get
SunScreen Lite from Sun... I don't know what kind of license you
would need.. but I know that SunScreen is very efective but ... not free

Erik Parker wrote:

> Ok, Ipfilter doesn't cut it for me.. The box crashes every few weeks (with
> various versions).. kernel dumping because of Ip filter.
>
> 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.
>
> Using the built in "filtering" of those softwares is not adequate..
>
> Any ideas? Something inexpensive is proffered.. I could run checkpoint on
> it, but this is just a host, not a firewall.
>
> Erik Parker
> Mind Security
>
> An armed society, is a polite society.
>
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