Re: iptables as a production firewall?

Adisegna@gmail.com wrote:
> Does anyone use iptables as a front end firewall?

We do. And it's netfilter. iptables is just the configuration tool.

> I have a few web server with a high amount of traffic and don't want
> the complexity and the expense of high end firewall. How will iptables
> stack up against something like a Secure Computing Sidewinder or one
> of the other application layer firewalls?

Not. netfilter does packet filtering, not application layer filtering,
so you would compare apples to oranges.

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