well,
i've been using RedHat for a long time as firewall and router. i've tried out
building gateways in various configurations (SNAT/Masquerade) and it works like
a really well oiled machine. For firewalling, in one of the eariler
installations I used the FWTK. it's really good. now a days i use iptables
only. this too is really powerfull once you get to know it. the reason for
shifting for me was just that i knew more of iptables than FWTK. by the way i'd
like to know of things that one can do and the other cannot.
Of the sites done by me, Rajabazar Science College, Institue of Radiophysics
and electronics and Calcutta university controller of examinations dept. use
Red Hat 9 or Fedora. The second one has been up for mare than 2 years now (it's
on a static IP!!!!) , no hiccups at all :-)
Recently i've built a firewall using RHEL 4 ES at another site. it seems to
perform better than others. They use SIFY wireless (64kbps). They connect to
their servers in europe using Cisco VPN from their windoze systems. The process
is absolutely transparent. The suckers there took the firewall down for a month
without telling me!!! some hacker started using the system as a mail server.
When i was told about, the slow speed, i used ethereal to sniff the packets and
came to know of the problem. i could clean up the system and restored it to
it's former glory without a reinstall. it runs other services too, like DNS,
printer sharing for Windoze systems, local file server. considering everything,
i think, this system performs the best of all the above in terms of speed.
maybe because of RHEL.
-santanu
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