On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 06:49:31PM +0900, Henry Nelson wrote:
> "/ipf.core" was generated on my 1.4.1 system.  Since I eventually hope
> to build a firewall based on ipfilter, it has me a bit worried about the
> security level I can expect.

core dumps can have a lot of orgigins, including hardware failure.
Maybe you've a problem with your rules ?
However, ipf is only used for initialising the filters rules, all happens in
kernel after; so a ipf core dump shoudln't leave your system wide open.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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