On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 08:48:25AM +0100, Simon Martin wrote: > 1) Comparison of Debian Vs Firewall-1 > My major competition here is Firewall-1. Anyone know of any comparison of > features / robustness / weaknesses?
Well.. the GUI is great, anybody thinks to know it and the support for strange new media protocols is build in. This is the feature and weakness of fw1 :) Well actually it depends on the packages you want to use on linux how easy/secure/fast it is. > 2) VPN > Is this available on Debian? Can I get the TCP/IP stack to encrypt / decrypt > automatically? If so what encryption methods are available? A lot. PPP via SSH, IPsec, CIPE, tunnelv, IPIP, .. See http://sites.inka.de/lina/freefire-l/index.en.html Greetings Bernd

