Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <011101c22ef2$8e224890$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> From: "Robert Collins" To: "Jim George" , "Nicholas Wourms" Cc: References: <20020718203939.23013.qmail@web21001.mail.yahoo.com> <019501c22ef1$9ec805a0$0100a8c0@george.co.uk> Subject: Re: Question Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 17:04:13 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 === ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim George" To: "Nicholas Wourms" Cc: Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 4:57 PM Subject: Re: Question > Apologies Nicholas I thought I had replied to all. > > From my understanding of squid (used it extensively under Linux), it would > be a fairly weak firewall? Squid is not a firewall. It's a proxy server (sometimes called a layer 7 firewall). Squid can add a significant amount of security to a network layout, but can be bypassed unless it is used in conjunction with a packet filtering firewall. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/