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RE: Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall
From: "Michael Steele" <michaels () silicondefense com>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 17:28:22 -0700
Robert, Well said. I think a lot of people know my name by now and what company I work for and what OS I'm very familiar with by now. I can take a new box and in three hours have Windows XP loaded with all patches and service packs, Snort installed sending; its alerts to MySQL with Acid as the console for viewing alerts, and have it locked down just as tight as any like UNIX box. This is also with IIS5. Most of these people that bad mouth Microsoft products simply don't know what they are talking about. They simply don't like Windows; either because they don't like the box company, or simply don't understand it, or even because they have to shell out dollars for it, unlike UNIX, which is usually free. Bottom line is to use what you're comfortable with. Snort CAN be installed securely on either platform (Windows or *nix). -Michael Michael Steele | System Engineer / Support Technician mailto:michaels () silicondefense com Silicon Defense: IDS solutions - http://www.silicondefense.com Snort: Open Source Network IDS - http://www.snort.org -----Original Message----- From: snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net [mailto:snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net] On Behalf Of Robert Reid Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 10:08 PM Cc: 'snort-users () lists sourceforge net' Subject: RE: [Snort-users] Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Nonsense. Windows 2000 and above done right is every bit as secure as any *NIX, more so in some cases. The number 1 problem with Windows are the lame admins. If the admin is crap the box will be crap, it doesn't matter what OS it's running. Why do people rarely take this into consideration? And yes, I also run Snort on Windows 2000 and have done for the past two years. Shudder. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Schmehl [mailto:pauls () utdallas edu] Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 3:41 PM To: Mike Mentges; Junaid Cc: snort-users () lists sourceforge net Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Maybe so, but you had better know what you're doing with pf or ipfw, or you'll be worse off. The *last* thing I would recommend for a Windows-only admin person it to use the BSDs. Let them cut their teeth on RedHat and iptables, and then once they have some grasp of Unix firewalls, you can move them gradually to the BSDs. --On Tuesday, April 15, 2003 02:23:31 PM -0400 Mike Mentges <mike () mentges org> wrote:
The best way to make a firewall with a win2k machine is to fdisk, format, and install a *BSD or *nix on it ;-P Preferably OpenBSD. Windows is far too insecure to be dependent upon for fire wall.
Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Snort-users mailing list Snort-users () lists sourceforge net Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users Snort-users list archive: http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=snort-users ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Snort-users mailing list Snort-users () lists sourceforge net Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users Snort-users list archive: http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=snort-users ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Snort-users mailing list Snort-users () lists sourceforge net Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users Snort-users list archive: http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=snort-users
Current thread:
- Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Junaid (Apr 15)
- Re: Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Mike Mentges (Apr 15)
- Re: Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Paul Schmehl (Apr 15)
- Re: {SPAM} Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Matt Kettler (Apr 15)
- Re: Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Patrick S. Harper (Apr 15)
- Re: Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Jason (Apr 15)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Junaid (Apr 15)
- RE: Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall bmcdowell (Apr 15)
- RE: Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Robert Reid (Apr 15)
- RE: Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Michael Steele (Apr 16)
- RE: Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Mike Mentges (Apr 16)
- RE: Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Matt Kettler (Apr 16)
- RE: Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Michael Steele (Apr 16)
- RE: Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Rich Adamson (Apr 17)
- RE: Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Michael Steele (Apr 16)
- Re: Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Mike Mentges (Apr 15)
- RE: Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Horta, Benny (Apr 16)
- RE: Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Mirko Matytschak (Apr 17)
- RE: Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Robert Reid (Apr 17)
- RE: Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall James Bly (Apr 17)
- RE: Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Robert Reid (Apr 17)
- RE: Still Help Needed: i want to make a firewall Michael Steele (Apr 17)