Michael W. Ryan on Fri, 16 Jun 2000 10:52:04 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [PLUG] Linux 2.2 Firewall


On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Michael Leone wrote:

> FW. If you use the router, you'll be bypassing the FW completely. You want
> everybody to go thru the firewall, which THEN goes out the router.

Yes, but the FW physically sits between the LAN and the router:

   (Internet)---[Router]---[FW]---(LAN)

There is no way to bypass the FW system.

Michael W. Ryan, MCP, MCT     | OTAKON 2000
mryan@netaxs.com              | Convention of Otaku Generation
http://www.netaxs.com/~mryan/ | http://www.otakon.com/

No, I don't hear voices in my head;
I'm the one that tells the voices in your head what to say.


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