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Ya...  I guess I should've s/aging a bit/ancient/ :)

>Admittedly it does cover basic philosophy pretty well (i.e. that which
>is not explicitly allowed is forbidden) but probably isn't of much
>practical use unless you're still running RedHat 6.2 (and you probably
>could find a more up-to-date book with the same general info).

Indeed...  My reference was to basic philosophy as opposed
to specific implementation(s).

>And for firewall use I'd definately go with OpenBSD as PF has some
>really slick stuff in it post-3.4 (Randal Schwartz had some neat rules
>which used the built-in passive OS identification code to shunt all
>SMTP traffic from Windows machines into a 56k rate-limited queue,
>leaving the rest of his 1M bandwidth free for non-MyDoom generated
>traffic).

Wooo, cool!

I guess my original post was to clarify someone's reference
to that book, hopefully to not start a flamewar (e.g. just
answer the question and/or clarify somthing).

-kc


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