On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Jim Comen wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to determine what would be the best (and most appropriate) OS > platform for a firewall. I've looked through several months of past > postings on this mailing list as well as other URLs to see if I could find > any clear direction on this issue, but I haven't seen any. > I'm going between NT and a UNIX variant. [snip] Consider that there is a firewall product out there for just about every OS environment. If you need a firewall, why does that have to drag along a new OS environment? Getting a firewall to do what you want may be tough enough without introducing the need to learn a new OS at the same time. -- Chip Coy [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.coy.com/~coy/ "Eat when hungry, drink when thirsty, hack whenever" - SF con button - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]
