-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 All good points, but irrelevant in the face of an OpenBSD firewall solution.
- - Brad Bemis - -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 2:09 PM To: Schmehl, Paul L Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] [OFFTOPIC] Zone Alarm On Thu, 05 Jun 2003 10:17:57 CDT, "Schmehl, Paul L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I wasn't going to respond to that because it was so patently obvious, > but since you did, I'll append this note - I have flashed my DSL router > three times since I bought it. I've had it for about a year. (It's not > a LinkSys or a NetGear router. It's an SMC Barricade.) > > In case anyone hasn't noticed, you have to patch some systems almost > daily - RedHat, for example, Windows obviously, etc., etc. On the flip side, let's compare apples to apples, shall we? Unless your DSL Router also has Gnome and OpenOffice and 693 other .rpms installed, the RedHat is getting patched more because there's more stuff. How about comparing how often you have to update your DSL router with how often you have to update the corresponding code on a RedHat box (say, the networking parts of the kernel, iptables/iproute, maybe iputils and parts of initscripts)? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Freeware, Ver 6.5.8CKT - Build 8 Comment: KeyID: 0xB8F26ADD Comment: Fingerprint: 6E1C D617 CD65 A203 7FD5 4C68 90E7 39F4 B8F2 6ADD iQA/AwUBPt/DM5DnOfS48mrdEQLAsACgj4+UOY+lSeG5yymMb6VoTb40zOAAnRfw hXaL7E0D8QXR9Sas+pwGezOE =yjcT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
