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RE: suggestions on a good firewall
From: "dschaible" <dschaible () cssiinc com>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 11:27:10 -0400
OK, I'll bite too. I know there is this Holy War between Linux and *BSD. But a well configured firewall is a well configured firewall, whatever the OS. A lot of the Hardware Firewalls on the market run Linux kernels. The firewall that's right for you is one you know how to configure and meets the needs you need to fulfill. To just say that X is a poor firewall is a little on the ignorant side. - Derek
-----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 firewallYea, linux as a firewall is poor than microsoft, bether useOpenBSD or buy ahardware 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 andno 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 homesystem.. I am runningwindowsXP / SuSE 8.1 dual boot what I want to do isset up anothercomputer to act as a firewall for my main system. what Iwant this todo is to be able to control what enters and leavesmy system with away to set up permissions. preferably I would like to have afirewallrunning on either a Linux or Unix os ... no m$ =) tia
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Current thread:
- RE: suggestions on a good firewall, (continued)
- RE: suggestions on a good firewall Mike Moore (May 16)
- RE: suggestions on a good firewall Dan DeVoe (May 17)
- RE: suggestions on a good firewall Tom Sevy (May 17)
- RE: suggestions on a good firewall kerberus (May 19)
- Re: suggestions on a good firewall Ing Bernardo Lopez (May 20)
- RE: suggestions on a good firewall Mark Ng (May 20)
- Re: suggestions on a good firewall Jeff (May 21)
- Re[2]: suggestions on a good firewall Malte von dem Hagen (May 21)
- Re: Re[2]: suggestions on a good firewall Jeff (May 22)
- Re[4]: suggestions on a good firewall Malte von dem Hagen (May 23)
- RE: suggestions on a good firewall kerberus (May 19)
- RE: suggestions on a good firewall dschaible (May 23)
- Re: suggestions on a good firewall Jeff (May 23)
- RE: suggestions on a good firewall Jason Dixon (May 26)
- RE: suggestions on a good firewall Mike Moore (May 16)
- RE: suggestions on a good firewall Mark (fat) (May 21)
- RE: suggestions on a good firewall Daniel B. Cid (May 22)
- RE: suggestions on a good firewall silvia ghezzi (May 22)
- RE: suggestions on a good firewall lassal (May 23)
- Re: suggestions on a good firewall Andreas Happe (May 22)
- RE: suggestions on a good firewall Daniel R. Miessler (May 21)
- RE: suggestions on a good firewall Jon Pastore (May 30)