Firewall Wizards: Re: FWTK and smap/smapd

[ark () eltex ru]

.but none of those applications provide the functionality of whole toolkit
combined with unified configuration and logging style.

(though i don't use smap/smapd too - just because of license restrictions
and legacy problems (yes, i am aware of patches that solve those problems)
i hacked obtuse smtpd/smtpd to accept netperm-table options instead ;)

"Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr () ranum com> said :

> Behm, Jeffrey L. wrote:
> > Is the Firewall Toolkit still a viable solution nowadays? At least as an
> > email gateway with smap/smapd-type functionality?
> It's probably still viable; but much of the functionality of the
> toolkit has been supplanted by larger more popular and complex
> applications. For example, for a good mail proxy consider postfix,
> for a good web proxy consider squid, etc. Just make sure you configure
> them with maximum care. Smap/smapd were not written to be particularly
> efficient (compared to, say, postfix) and may bog down a high volume
> gateway.
>
> I use postfix these days. ;)
 

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