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List:       netfilter
Subject:    RE: IPTABLES vs Checkpoint
From:       "Ivan E. Moore II" <rkrusty () tdyc ! com>
Date:       2002-11-26 23:19:36
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>AFAIK Checkpoint is not a firewall at all, but a proxy server.  This
clearly means that it 
>acts like a Web/FTP/whatever server that connects people in your
company to the outside world >by requesting Web pages over HTTP and
initiating FTP connections on their behalf.

This is incorrect information.  Checkpoint offers proxy capabilities
however by default it is a stateful firewall.

Ivan



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