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RE: suggestions on a good firewall
From: "Christopher Harrington" <charrington () syseng com>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 12:26:29 -0400
I guess like most everything else it comes down to what you want to do with the firewall. They each have their place based on cost vs. functionality with a little ease of use thrown in. If I was a Microsoft shop with no Linux / BSD expertise I would not install a FW based on those technologies. I would probably go hardware based with a nice easy GUI interface. That way I would not have to worry about the learning curve as much. My personal choice would be a Cisco PIX 501. They are about $375 street price and have built in VPN capabilities. --Chris -----Original Message----- From: Jeff [mailto:jeffr76 () yahoo com] Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 12:36 PM To: security-basics () securityfocus com; Ing Bernardo Lopez Subject: Re: suggestions on a good firewall ok I'll bite Why is Linux or the others in this thread a bad idea as a firewall. I see you would recommend a hardware firewall. does this mean like a linksys or netgear or raptor or one of those type of LINUX based firewall systems. I have deployed Linux,Cisco, and raptors based firewall and the difference I have see is support and cost. Linux being the less cost and Cisco being the most. if it was my network and I was making the security policy I would chose Linux or raptor Cisco is just too much money for a personal or small company network. just my .02 Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ing Bernardo Lopez" <bloodk () prodigy net mx> To: <security-basics () securityfocus com> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 4:49 PM Subject: Re: suggestions on a good firewall
Yea, linux as a firewall is poor than microsoft, bether use OpenBSD or buy
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hardware firewall... dont be a poor freak guy... On Saturday 17 May 2003 12:07, kerberus wrote:Please get a real Firewall use OpenBSD and PF On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 14:50, Tom Sevy wrote:I 2nd ipcop as a suggestion... -----Original Message----- From: Mike Moore [mailto:mike () moorecomputing net] Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 7:14 PM To: security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: RE: suggestions on a good firewall Or even better www.ipcop.org . A lot better support and no abuse.-----Original Message----- From: Dan Tesch [mailto:dantel () rb-group com] Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 1:37 PM To: Beaney, Derek; security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: Re: suggestions on a good firewall Try www.smoothwall.org Beaney, Derek wrote:im planning on making a firewall for my home system.. I am running windowsXP / SuSE 8.1 dual boot what I want to do is set up another computer to act as a firewall for my main system. what Iwant this todo is to be able to control what enters and leaves my system with
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way to set up permissions. preferably I would like to have afirewallrunning on either a Linux or Unix os ... no m$ =) tia-------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- Thinking About Security Training? You Can't Afford Not To! Vigilar's industry leading curriculum includes: Security +, Check Point, Hacking & Assessment, Cisco Security, Wireless Security & more! Register Now! --UP TO 30% off classes in select cities-- http://www.securityfocus.com/Vigilar-security-basics -------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- Thinking About Security Training? You Can't Afford Not To! Vigilar's industry leading curriculum includes: Security +, Check
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- RE: suggestions on a good firewall, (continued)
- RE: suggestions on a good firewall Mark Ng (May 21)
- Re: suggestions on a good firewall salgak (May 21)
- RE: suggestions on a good firewall dave (May 22)
- Re: suggestions on a good firewall planz (May 22)
- RE: suggestions on a good firewall Dan . Hemphill (May 21)
- RE: suggestions on a good firewall Jim Barrett (May 22)
- RE: suggestions on a good firewall Des Ward (May 23)
- RE: suggestions on a good firewall David Gillett (May 22)
- RE: suggestions on a good firewall Jim Barrett (May 22)
- RE: suggestions on a good firewall Mike Heitz (May 22)
- RE: suggestions on a good firewall Potter, Tim (May 22)
- RE: suggestions on a good firewall Christopher Harrington (May 22)
- RE: suggestions on a good firewall Mann, Bobby (May 23)
- RE: suggestions on a good firewall David Ellis (May 23)
- Re: suggestions on a good firewall salgak (May 23)
- RE: suggestions on a good firewall wjnorth (May 23)
- RE: suggestions on a good firewall dave (May 26)
- Re: suggestions on a good firewall salgak (May 23)
- RE: suggestions on a good firewall Chris Berry (May 23)
- RE: suggestions on a good firewall Jordan Jesse - Toronto-MROC (May 23)
- Re: suggestions on a good firewall salgak (May 23)
- RE: suggestions on a good firewall Dana Rawson (May 23)
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