RE: hacking the system

[Ronneil Camara <ronneilc@oneconsulting.com>]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffery.Gieser@minnesotamutual.com
> [mailto:Jeffery.Gieser@minnesotamutual.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 10:42 PM
> To: Ronneil Camara; firewalls@Lists.GNAC.NET
> Subject: Re: hacking the system
> 
>
>      I don't have any experience with the IBM AIX firewall 
> directly but IBM
> ported that firewall over to OMVS on the mainframe and I have 
> a little bit
> of experience with that.  First of all, the firewall is just a packet
> filtering firewall with SOCKS V5 for the application layer 
> proxies.  Not
> exactly a first rate commercial firewall.  The IBM engineers 

Sorry about this question. Would you rate ipfilter for Openbsd as a totally
good firewall assuming rules were applied correctly?


> told me that
> this firewall is NOT intended for use as an Internet 
> firewall.  NMAP should
> work fine.  I would also suggest looking for a tool that has 
> some AIX hacks
> in it.  I would look in the SQL manual to see what MSSQL uses 
> \PIPE and SMB
> for.

Are there any other firewall for AIX? I was asking the IBM guy a while ago
that the real name of the firewall is Firewall. I was really confused with
this. Although, it's not an issue. It could really be Firewall. And how
come, I asked him if it supports stateful packet inspection and he answered
me yes, is it true?

Onie
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