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Subject: Re: PC OS for firewall
From: Ollivier Robert <Ollivier . Robert @ keltia . frmug . fr . net>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 1994 19:08:36 +0200 (MET DST)
To: danny @ miriworld . its . unimelb . EDU . AU (Daniel O'Callaghan)
Cc: gaus @ znanost . mz . hr, dbengez @ znanost . mz . hr, knuesel @ ihagfm . ch, mshines @ ia . purdue . edu, firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <Pine . 3 . 89 . 9406300854 . A5034-0100000 @ miriworld . its . unimelb . edu . au> from "Daniel O'Callaghan" at Jun 30, 94 08:58:38 am
Reply-to: roberto @ hsc . fr . net (Ollivier Robert)

> want a dual-homed host with full packet screening, you'll probably want 
> to run screend.  Screend is available for Ultrix, OSF/1 and the 386BSD 
> family.  It definitely compiles under BSDi, the commercially available 
> 386BSD.  There seem to be a couple of glitches in the Makefile and other 
> files which stop an easy compilation under FreeBSD.  The ones I have 
> identified so far are: 
 
> Makefile declarator for screend needs something like
>  -DBYTE_ORDER=0 -DLITTLE_ENDIAN=0 -DBIG_ENDIAN=1, so that it builds 
> as little endian, without duplicate structure member problems;

Hmmm, are you sure of that ? Your definition seem to imply you've got a big
endian machine instead...
 
> Someone on this list offered to port screend to Linux.  I have no idea of 
> progress...

I just got it but I've not tried to complie it under FreeBSD 1.1.5.

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Ollivier ROBERT                                           roberto @
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 net
Hervé Schauer Consultants                Ollivier .
 Robert @
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 frmug .
 fr .
 net
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