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Re: [FW1] Which modules do what?



Purely a guess.

I would imagine that if you pull any one of the
three, life will stop.

fw (FW-1 mod v4.1)  - processes the policy et'al
fw (FW-1 drv v4.1)  - handles /dev/fw0
fwip (FW-1 IP v4.1)  - intercepts I/O through the IP stack

Robert

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>>> Lance Spitzner <[email protected]> 11/28/00 2:08:05 AM >>>
>
>Does anyone have any idea which modules do what for FW-1?
>
>I'm running FW-1 ver 4.1 SP2 on Solaris 7.  FW-1 implements
>the three following kernel modules.
>
>lisa #modinfo | grep -i fw
> 60 7041c000 3168e2  12   1  fw (FW-1 mod v4.1)
> 60 7041c000 3168e2  54   1  fw (FW-1 drv v4.1)
> 61 101f7f6c   2014  13   1  fwip (FW-1 IP v4.1)
>
>Anyone know which modules do what?  I'm extremely interested in
>what fwip could do (does it fiddle with the IP stack)? 
>
>Anyone have any ideas?  I'm tempted to just remove each module
>one at a time and see what blows up.
>
>Thanks
>-- 
>Lance Spitzner
>http://www.enteract.com/~lspitz 




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