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Re: LVS Project Plans - firewall on director box(es)?

To: "LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list." <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: LVS Project Plans - firewall on director box(es)?
From: Joseph Mack <mack.joseph@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 15:47:34 -0500
Peter Mueller wrote:
> 
> > The problem is that now that LVS is a netfilter module,
> > it was not possible to write it in the netfilter format,

actually "not completely in the netfilter format"

> Is this now included in the latest code versions, 2.4.20 + 1.0.7 (?) ? 

no there are no plans to fix this. 
Netfilter is different enough from LVS that there's no
immediate likelyhood of this being fixed.

> Ja, back to "what is a firewall" ;)

everything advances. Yesterday a firewall was filter
rules. Today stateful rules are the norm. Tomorrow...?

Joe
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ph# 919-541-0007, RTP, NC, USA. mailto:mack.joseph@xxxxxxx
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