On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:08:19AM -0800, Franklin Hays wrote:
> 
> I would  be interested in hearing opinions on this as well.  Playing with
> the idea of using OpenBSD for my firewall and slackware linux for my
> servers.
>
OpenBSD is a great choice for a firewall.  You can choose to install a really
small system (you can leave out the manpages, which an attacker could use to
learn your system), and a normal install won't activate any user space daemons,
so hardening an OpenBSD system is pretty much a non-issue.  I also find packet
filter rules in OpenBSD much easier to understand than ipchains, or whatever 
the new way is.  Networking in OpenBSD is more advanced than Linux. (bridging
and IPv6 are standard, not "experimental") 

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OpenBSD is also my choice for workstation, so I may be a little biased.

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