[geeks] ipfilter question - was:DHCP silliness

[David Cantrell]

On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 11:51:49PM +0000, Mike Meredith wrote:
> On Sunday 25 November 2001 20:10, you wrote:
> > You're quite right to think that the firewall understanding
> > application- layer protocols is a Bad Thing.  
> 
> Personally I'm quite happy about it. How else am I going to block 
> ActiveX content?

It's at the application layer, so get the application to block it - or
better, get the application to ignore it.

>                  It certainly shouldn't poke around at the application 
> layer without asking though.

I *think* that that was what I was trying to say :-)

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