Re: Re: [Security] Re: [MAGNet] Norton Personal Firewall 3.0.2 incompatible with Mac OS X 10.4

From: Michael Sinatra <michael_at_rancid.berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu May 19 2005 - 15:15:56 PDT

Lucas Rockwell wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> I very much agree with what you said about logging. However, and I am
> sorry to be splitting hairs here, my reading of the page is in-line
> with Aron's. It states under Other Firewalls:
>
> "To meet the Minimum Standards, other host-based firewalls listed on
> the Campus software distribution website must, at a minimum: ... Log
> inbound and outbound blocked packets ..."
>
> The word "must" is clearly used in that statement.
>
> Again, hopefully there will be official clarification soon on this issue.

The firewall _must_ do that, but must it be configured to do that? Must
it do that for _all_ inbound and outbound packets?

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