[CentOS] Re: iptables

[Scott Silva]

on 1/4/2008 1:37 AM Christopher Thorjussen spake the following:
>> Indunil Jayasooriya wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I am running iptables on centos 4.5 and 5 boxes.
>>>
>>> Now , I have requirements to enable below features.
>>>
>>> Gateway level antivirus, anti spyware and intrusion preventions,
>>> content filtering, etc.
>> There are a hundred different ways to filter different things,
> depending
>> on exactly what you are trying to accomplish.
>>
>> One way (that has nothing to do with CentOS) to do part of that is to
>> use IPCOP as your border router.  (It has snort IDS, and squid
> filtering
>> built in).
>>
>> Spam, antivirus, and spyware normally come in via e-mail, and
>> spamassassin and clamav used in conjuction with your mail server (if
> you
>> run it) or in conjunction with your e-mail client on linux can fix
> that.
> 
> You may also install copfilter onto IPCOP to get pop/smtp/ftp/http
> scanning (virus etc)
> 
> http://www.copfilter.org/
> 
> 
But copfilter updates are very slow. It would be nice if it could at least 
keep up with clam updates.

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