RE: suggestions on a good firewall

["Jon Pastore" <jpastore () idetech net>]

Well after going through this thread of messages I order openBSD to give
it a shot...if another RHCE is recommending it over
iptables...well...there's no harm in branching out? 

Jon Pastore RHCE, President
IDE Tech, Inc.
(954) 360-0393 Office
(954) 428-0442 Fax


-----Original Message-----
From: David Moisan [mailto:dmoisan () davidmoisan org] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 5:47 PM
To: David Ellis; security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: RE: suggestions on a good firewall


At 03:30 PM 5/27/2003 -0400, David Ellis wrote:
> Microsoft have pretty good OS's etc. But they are far from a security 
> company.
No OS vendor is, by that, except perhaps BSD.


> And also they have ports open by default on their firewall like port 88

> for Kerberos. Just throw netcat into the mix listening on port 88 and 
> forwarding to port 139. Good bye network!
Neither open here.

David Moisan, N1KGH   ARES/SKYWARN             dmoisan () davidmoisan org
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