7 Feb
2009
7 Feb
'09
12:14 a.m.
Tell ya what Owen, When you can show me residential grade CPE which has a DECENT stateful firewall then PLEASE let me know. Needs to do other things well, not crash, not cost hundreds of dollars, supportable, does VOIP, WIFI etc are manufacturer supported etc. Of course, it needs to do IPv6 as well. (it's easy to say Owen, but quite frankly, the reality from my side of the fence as an operator is that it's not the norm). MMC On 07/02/2009, at 2:02 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
IPTables is decent firewall code.
It's free.
I don't buy that argument for a second.
Further, since more and more CPE is being built on embedded linux, there's no reason that IPTables isn't a perfectly valid approach to the underlying firewall code.
Owen