Hi All,
It has been many moons so i hope all are well locking down the
hatches..;-)) FW1 i not all bad as it sure makes things very high level
whereas you will need to know more to use ipchains successfully that is..
There are inhernet issues with FW1 where is simply sinks IMHO.
This can be said about the 2.2.x versions of the linux kernel as well.
But the attitude is in the right place. THINK DEFENSE IN DEPTH.
That is a key concept and sorry but throwing $$ on fw solution without a strong
knowledge base is sort of like being a weekend (whatever that is;-)) *player)
It is most important to know the issues with each tool that you have and
do it yourself solutions tend to IMHO offer the most flexibility. But @ a price
in time.
Your comment ..
in terms of being a solid, secure, reliable firewall.
Well that is all relative and to lesser and greater degrees so if you can live
with that then welcome to the Internet;-))
Best Regards,
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> I've been using Checkpoint FW-1 4.0 for a long time now, but
Checkpoint has > pissed me off by making me pay thousands of $s to upgrade to
4.1 simply > because our previous IT Mgr let our support contract expire.
Ideally I > would love FW-1 4.1 for Linux, but upgrading to 4.1 of ANY platform
is going > to mean big $$.
>
> So here's my basic question: Can anyone tell me what, exactly, FW-1 can do
> that a native Linux firewall could not? I'm talking about using an RHAT 6.2
> box with ipchains. I'm on a serious Linux kick here at Health Decisions,
> and have moved all of our webservers, DHCP server, DNS, etc. over to Linux.
> Several friends of mine run a Linux box as their firewall at their offices,
> and I am interested in doing the same.
>
> This question is, of course, independent of ease-of-use GUI, VPN
> capabilities (I have Linux PoPToP server and FreeS/WAN for PPTP and IPSEC
> solutions, respectively), etc. I'm talking strictly in terms of security,
> in terms of being a solid, secure, reliable firewall.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Cheers from NC,
> Brian
>
> Brian R. Aust
> Manager of Information Technology
> Health Decisions, Inc.
> 1512 East Franklin St. Suite 200
> Chapel Hill, NC 27514
> 919.967.2399 x247
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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