RE: Basics of firewall setup

[mouss <usebsd@free.fr>]

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I personally perfer BSD based systems for firewalls. however,
there is much of personnal taste/opinion here.

Thus, I am not ok with your boss. BSD is a good (to say it's the best would
be a personnal opinion, and I doubt you want such a sentence!), but
drawbridge is
(as far as I know) more appropriate in an "open" network, such as a
university.
things like ipfilter (my choice), ipfw, netfilter are more appropriate for
a corporate network (my choice being BSD with ipfilter).

I advise you to:
- convince your boss that linux is good enough for you
- install BSD on some machine and try it. It's the "friend" of linux and as
an "open source patriote",
you should know what it is...



regards,

mouss



> -----Original Message-----
> From: firewalls-owner@Lists.GNAC.NET
> [mailto:firewalls-owner@Lists.GNAC.NET]On Behalf Of Gerrish, Robert
> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 5:06 PM
> To: Myron Jabido; firewalls@lists.gnac.net
> Subject: RE: Basics of firewall setup
>
>
>
> 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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