Re: Filters

John G. Thompson (jgt10@livingston.com)
Tue, 22 Jul 1997 14:31:05 -0700

At 02:07 PM 7/22/97 -0700, patrick@namesecure.com wrote:
>On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Tom Samplonius wrote:
>
>> > Also depending on your ComOS version, if you don't have a filter called
>> > email.out, it will assume a null filter (filter with no rules) --> thus
>> > everything going out on that port will block. So you might wanna try:
>> > add filter email.out; set filter email.out permit 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
>>
>> Not quite. A filter with no rules will block everything. A
>> non-existant filter will block nothing.
>
>What is the sound of a non-existent filter flapping? ;-)
>

TROUBLE!!! :)

JGT
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