Anyone,
Setting aside general Linux enthusiasm and advocacy, does anyone really
think that there's a good reason to use Linux for a firewall? I (personally)
like ipfilter on OpenBSD, both because ipfilter is Damn Fine Stuff and
because OpenBSD is treated like a real OS in terms of releases, revisioning
and code review.
To take the example below - RH 6.2 is r00table out of the box and ipchains
is not stateful. RH 7 had problems, so they rushed 7.1. Iptables in 7.1 was
then immediately found to have a bug in the FTP code (of course - where
else?).
I'd love to have some faith that iptables was cool and ready for primetime,
since ipchains on Linux did more than anything else I can think of to raise
awareness about solid, free firewalls (oh, the irony!) - but I still have
many reservations.
Comments, anyone?
Cheers,
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Ben Nagy
Network Security Specialist
Marconi Services Australia Pty Ltd
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: DSC coria fernandez jose antonio
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> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 7:36 AM
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> im looking information for install ipchains, in a red hat
> box ver 6.2,
> i was reading the hows to, but i still have questions?
> some suggestions
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> thanks a lot
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