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: <01d101c22ef5$be32ca20$0100a8c0@george.co.uk> From: "Jim George" To: References: <20020718203939.23013.qmail@web21001.mail.yahoo.com> <019501c22ef1$9ec805a0$0100a8c0@george.co.uk> <011101c22ef2$8e224890$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> Subject: Re: Question Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 08:27:29 +0100 Organization: JSDM Services Ltd 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 V5.00.2919.6700 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Collins" To: "Jim George" ; "Nicholas Wourms" Cc: Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 8:04 AM Subject: Re: Question > > === > ----- 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 > Rob, that was exactly my point, but one I wasn't too confident of ;) Cheers, Jim -- 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/