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Re: Need Help Building Linux Based Firewall
From: j m <security () wirerats org>
Date: 27 Nov 2002 20:23:28 -0000
In-Reply-To: <018001c295bc$2d30ac30$4f03150a () sc org> Hello,
From my experience and knowledge that I have gathered throughout the net I
believe that OpenBSD is prolly the best OS to use as a firewall. If you are looking at Redhat linux I would go with a Server install without X and use Bastille to harden your box (http://www.bastille-linux.org). If I was you I would scour through the last few days of posts and look at some of the interesting posts regarding *nix firewall setup. There have been some real good posts that should be able to answer more of your in-depth questions. jm
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by outgoing.securityfocus.com (Postfix) with QMQP id C73AA8F309; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:48:47 -0700 (MST) Mailing-List: contact security-basics-help () securityfocus com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: <security-basics.list-id.securityfocus.com> List-Post: <mailto:security-basics () securityfocus com> List-Help: <mailto:security-basics-help () securityfocus com> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:security-basics-unsubscribe () securityfocus com> List-Subscribe: <mailto:security-basics-subscribe () securityfocus com> Delivered-To: mailing list security-basics () securityfocus com Delivered-To: moderator for security-basics () securityfocus com Received: (qmail 12278 invoked from network); 27 Nov 2002 02:05:40 -0000 Message-ID: <018001c295bc$2d30ac30$4f03150a () sc org> From: "Khuzairi Yahaya" <khuzairi () seccom com my> To: <security-basics () securityfocus com> References: <HHEPLPKJCLHPLFEPDCPBGEJKCEAA.burntcircuit () phreaker net> Subject: Need Help Building Linux Based Firewall Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:24:54 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Dear Tech Gurus, I was given the responsibility to setup a Linux Based Firewall. I am looking at either Redhat, Mandrake and Suse on intel platform and Sparc based. I need your opinion on the following: 1. Which OS is considered the best suited for a firewall? 2. What are the application/software required to be installed? 3. What security conserns/issues I need to address? 4. Should I use multiple processors? 5. Any website for reference? Any help is very much appreciated here. Many thanks. Kuzek
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