[CentOS] SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!

David Sommerseth dazo at users.sourceforge.net
Thu Dec 9 08:36:14 UTC 2010


On 09/12/10 01:05, Christopher Chan wrote:
> On Thursday, December 09, 2010 02:55 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:
> 
>> Second, iptables is a de-facto standard for Linux, just as pf is pretty
>> much the standard firewalling on BSD.  Windows and Solaris got their own
>> firewalling methods as well.  My point is, neither of them are any Posix
>> standards ... would you prefer to not use any of these firewall
>> implementations due to lack of cross-platform Posix support?
>>
> 
> Ah...I believe it is ipfw that is standard on the BSDs although pf has 
> been ported to FreeBSD...

You might be pretty much right. The *BSD does have several firewall
solutions, some unique to some *BSDs and some available to most of the
BSD flavours, and I might have confused it.  Thanks for straiten me out!


kind regards,

David Sommerseth




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