RE: Basics of firewall setup

["Gerrish, Robert" <Robert.Gerrish@trimsystems.com>]

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I am from the build / configure it yourself school.
That way you know what you've got and how to fix it.
RedHat is a good platform.  For a firewall (or any
production box) once I get it configured, it rarely,
if ever gets a full upgrade . . . security patches
are about it.

At my prior position, we used bare bones Linux
with the built in wrappers, ipwadm.  We added socks 
and TIS firewall toolkit proxies to build our own.  

The one I'm putting together for a future home DSL 
connection will be similar.

Bob Gerrish

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Myron Jabido [mailto:mbjwork@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 6:48 AM
> To: firewalls@lists.gnac.net
> Subject: Basics of firewall setup
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I guess I should be more specific on my question.  It's going 
> to be my job 
> to setup this firewall on a system running RedHat Linux.  My 
> boss had heard 
> of Drawbridge, which as far as we know is only compatible 
> with FreeBSD, not 
> RedHat Linux.  He said that he'd be willing to get FreeBSD 
> and Drawbridge if 
> it's more secure, but we would like to see if the security 
> features of 
> RedHat Linux are adequate.  Does anyone have any experience with this?
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> Myron
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