At 09:04 AM 8/29/2001 +0800, Johann Vincent Paul U. Tagle wrote:
Do you really want to use a linux-based commercial firewall?
IPTABLES is really a neat beefed-up version of ipchains... plus its already
implementing what commercial firewalls do... "stateful inspections". I'm
currently using it right now but i haven't tried doing 3 tiered interface
(DMZ, Trusted, Untrusted) yet. Anybody?
>Hi. We're looking for a firewall solution. An officemate of mine seems
>uncomfortable with using a linux-based firewall to protect servers running
>proprietary/commercial unix. I think given good hardware, proper
>configuration, and maybe to increase comfort level, using commercial (with
>vendor support) but still linux-based firewall software, we should be fine.
>It would help my case if I can give them a live setup that has similar
>configuration. Anybody here doing that? Suggestions on what
>distribution/software to use are also most welcome. Also, know of any
>firewall solution that can be configured for high availability/clustering?
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Reynald I. Ngo
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