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Re: question about proxy firewall



Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> Also, Checkpoint is not a proxy firewall (but it is starting to become
> like one with this new 'Application Intelligence' stuff)
well, as I said I know very little about that, but someone told me that some
commercial firewalls work at the application level (for incoming traffic).
I don't know if this is exactly the same...

> You might want to take a look at Zorp
> (www.gnu.org/directory/security/firewall/zorp.html) which provides a
> framework for developing proxies with filtering (i.e. a proxy firewall) in
> Python. And, of course, it's packaged in Debian.
thanx, I've already started reading about it.

Bye
--
Haim



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