I have several firewalls ( some with heavy traffic ) running over redhat 7.2 and 7.3. In both cases, I used to recompile the whole kernel to the newest ( 2.4.18 - even in rh73, which already cames with 2.4.18 ). In my custom kernel compilation, i apply some patchs from iptables patch-o- matic to enable some modules like psd, string, iplimit, and others. I also need to uninstall RPM iptables and recompile iptables from sources ( 1.2.6a ), so those kernel compiled modules can be used.
Of course, custom installation is done and all unnecessary packages ( KDE and stuff ) are not installed. I need to install some devel packages so I can compile things with no problems. My rh installations uses about 650Mb. Well, hope this helps you ...... I really have no problems with redhat and I'd recommend it. Sincerily, Leonardo Rodrigues Citando Miguel Laborde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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. >
