On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A general question that could lead to interesting things
If anyone here were able to start, from scratch, their own firewall,
specifically designed on a Linux platform, what would you select as the
flavour, taking into consideration the
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, David Lang wrote:
Also for maintaining firewalls I prefer to watch security announcements
and when software that is running on the firewall has a bug discovered in
it I prefer to download the source and install the patch immediatly rather
then wait for someone to do the
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I prefer Slackware as linux distro for security, but now exist trustix,
that is a hardened Server-Oriented only linux distro.
The default MTA is postfix, and by default ALL line in /etc/inetd.conf
have a wornderfull "#" .
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A general question that could lead to interesting things
If anyone here were able to start, from scratch, their own firewall,
specifically designed on a Linux platform, what would you select as the
flavour, taking into consideration the following requirements:
1) Security, something
on 7/27/00 7:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If anyone here were able to start, from scratch, their own firewall,
specifically designed on a Linux platform, what would you select as the
flavour, taking into consideration the following requirements:
I've built a couple
is the best linux platform for security
A general question that could lead to interesting things
If anyone here were able to start, from scratch, their own firewall,
specifically designed on a Linux platform, what would you select as the
flavour, taking into consideration the following
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A general question that could lead to interesting things
If anyone here were able to start, from scratch, their own firewall,
specifically designed on a Linux platform, what would you select as the
flavour, taking into consideration the following requirements:
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A general question that could lead to interesting things
If anyone here were able
If anyone here were able to start, from scratch, their own firewall,
specifically designed on a Linux platform, what would you select as the
flavour, taking into consideration the following requirements:
1) Security, something stripped-down and tight
2) Performance, as that is always an issue
1) Security, something stripped-down and tight
Almost any distro could make this cut - just install the bare minimum and
weed out any extra stuff you don't explicitly need. Don't install the games,
X, network daemons you don't need or want - just the basics. Add to flavor
and let simmer.
I'd probably not use Linux. I don't trust the integrity of the code in
any of the distros enough. If I had to start building on a mainstream
OS I'd look at OpenBSD - it's had pro-active code review. If I had
even more time I'd like to look at the RSBAC[1] stuff for Linux that
Paul Robertson
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