Hi folks, I'm reading a book on network security and it mentions "proxy firewalls", so I'm wondering if an OpenBSD box with Squid installed would fit this description? Or, are there other "proxy firewalls" the author is referring to?
The book mentions that although "proxy firewalls" tend to slow traffic down, they are much more secure than a typical, "statefull packet filtering" firewall. He says they will ignore the typical "network discovery" methods, i.e. nmap, etc., etc. As a matter of curiosity, has anyone ran an nmap scan against an OpenBSD box with Squid? What did the scan results indicate? Thank you, Ed
