---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Miguel Laborde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 18:22:38 -0400
>Hello all, > I have a question here for those of you who use iptables heavily in a >production environment. Right now I am about to replace a older Mandrake >(release 7.2) with an updated linux firewall however before I go ahead and >do that, I'm interested in knowing what you people consider the most stable >distribution for a linux firewall. > I realize that the underlying OS and iptables software is common across all >distributions however some distributions apply patches which others don't, >and as result might be better suitable as a firewall. > > > Thanks for your time, > Miguel > > > > I just used redhat 7.0 (I think, it's been a while), and removed everything that was completely unnecessary, then compiled a whole new kernel (I had to; I'm using the bridge-netfilter patch). So, it isn't much of a redhat anymore, just uses redhat paths and rpm.
