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i doubt firewalls even existed in any capacity at this time. routing packets in and of itself was already quite an CPU intensive task, analysing and blocking pa
by kazen44 5y ago
i doubt firewalls even existed in any capacity at this time.
routing packets in and of itself was already quite an CPU intensive task, analysing and blocking packets would be a whole other ballgame during the early days.
- anthk 5y agoMost people with 486 and Pentium used Iptables.
- yencabulator 5y agoIptables was the third generation of Linux firewalling: ipfwadm, ipchains, iptables, nftables, ...
- icedchai 5y agoEarly firewalls, like Checkpoint for example, did exist. They were, however, not widely used outside of the enterprise. I worked for several small ISPs and typically only larger enterprises even bothered. Small companies and even universities had public IP on the desktops.
- yencabulator 5y agoipfwadm was in Linux around 1996.