On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 16:06:27 +0800 Ariz Jacinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Jimmy Lim wrote: > > >In my opinion proprietary hardware will remain proprietary and you > >can't do anything about it, you're stuck on it, and whenever there's > >a bug or exploit on it, you look like a sitting duck waiting to > >happen something. > > > >Yes we need a pretty handy and easy to maintain appliance, so what I > >did is to purchase an IWill XP4 SFF (a reasonable size to occupy > >space) and put my live cd distribution as my firewall/VPN/NAT with > >sshd for me to tweak/change configuration. And whenever there's an > >update, recompile the whole thing then burn again on a new cd. > > > >Now I have my own firewall appliance. > > > > > how about downloading the GPL-ed source of a Linksys > router then implement it on your appliance/system? > different on the outside but same on the inside. =) > > http://www.linksys.com/support/gpl.asp Well this is not bad either, but the question is how's the response time of these people whenever there's a bug/exploit on their system? We all know that linux/bsd has a good record of immediate response whenever they found one. Cheers, -- Jimmy Lim Operation & Support Team Leader Tricom -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
