Just curious re: this BSD .You say it's a more secure OS.Anyone knows
what firewall's
run on BSD commercially.Can anyone point me to their website.
BTW have anyone heard of Cyberguard Firewall they say it runs on Unixware
2.1 .They
said that they have bought the sourceCode from SCO.They say they ran their
Firewall
on top of the Unixware where they have re: do the OS of Unixware.And now
they
say they have the most secure firewall running on a most secured OS.
They're OS was rated as B2 level w/c no one was the're yet to be a B2
Level ?
Is this true?
Any comments from this?Please send me comments.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Noonan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Myron Jabido" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2000 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: Basics of firewall setup
> Many people feel that the *BSDs are more secure by nature. In a
> nutshell, they have a much slower rate of change in their code. In
> intent, at least, OpenBSD would be the most secure. I would look into
> it for any BSD based firewall.
>
> Having a cursory look at the Drawbridge website I'd say they are
> adding performance not features to the existing packet filter which is
> much like the one available in linux. So, on that level, not much
> difference. The keys are things like code review (OpenBSD hallmark)
> and how much system hardening you're capable of doing. On that last
> subject someone has likely written a book, so I'll leave it at that.
>
> -Rich
>
> On Fri, 5 May 2000, Myron Jabido wrote:
>
> > 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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