Nick, the presentation from SHARE was about Stonegate from Stonesoft. http://www.stonesoft.com/products/stonegate/
Chris *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 1/15/2004, at 3:18 PM, Nick Laflamme wrote: >As we lurch forward with our pilot project, our network security people >would like to install a firewall as a Linux image on the mainframe to >keep the various Linux guests from beating on each other, because in the >real world, there are firewalls in place (more or less) to keep "real" >Linux images from beating on each other. > >Our "real" firewalls run one of the offerings from Checkpoint, but they >don't seem to have ported anything to Linux on the mainframe (or else >their web pages aren't up to date about that). A neighboring Linux S/390 >site has talked in general terms about iptables being robust enough for >their needs. I remember a SHARE talk on porting an application to Linux >on the mainframe where the application was a firewall, but I can't find >a handout from that session. > >So, are there commonly used alternatives to iptables for firewalls on >the mainframe? Is iptables commonly used, for that matter, or are most >of you relying upon external firewalls for any firewall needs you have? > >Related question: are there practical limits to how many point-to-point >connections a Linux image can manage? > >Thanks, >Nick ________________________ Chris Rohrbach email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
