Re: firewalls and bsd

1999-12-03 Thread Sprovski Bozidar
This is truly interesting. Since I wish to make an experimental firewall at work, I was wondering whether anyone can point me in the right direction. Where can I find/download a FreeBSD?? Arcady Genkin wrote: Kenneth Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If there are any debian-bsd people here

Re: firewalls and bsd

1999-12-03 Thread Arcady Genkin
Sprovski Bozidar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is truly interesting. Since I wish to make an experimental firewall at work, I was wondering whether anyone can point me in the right direction. Where can I find/download a FreeBSD?? www.freebsd.org -- Arcady Genkin

firewalls and bsd

1999-12-02 Thread Kenneth Scharf
If there are any debian-bsd people here maybe they can answer this. I have been doing some reading and have heard that some of the BSD variants are considered a better canidate os for a firewall system than linux (herertic!). OpenBSD in particular was highly regarded in this (though it was said

Re: firewalls and bsd

1999-12-02 Thread Arcady Genkin
Kenneth Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If there are any debian-bsd people here maybe they can answer this. I have been doing some reading and have heard that some of the BSD variants are considered a better canidate os for a firewall system than linux (herertic!). OpenBSD in particular

Re: firewalls and bsd

1999-12-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On 2/12/99 Kenneth Scharf wrote: OpenBSD in particular was highly regarded in this (though it was said to be a RPITA to install). Any thoughts on this out there? I installed OpenBSD and its not that bad, there is no pretty curses UI for the installer no, but its really quite simple (in

Re: firewalls and bsd

1999-12-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 2 Dec 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: [ snip ] : Reportedly, *BSD's have the fastest TCI/IP stack in the industry. They : are also pretty secure, out of the box. For example, while Linux : mounts disk partitions asynchronously, my FreeBSD installation mounts : syncronously by default. ...

Re: firewalls and bsd

1999-12-02 Thread David S. Jackson
So then Kenneth Scharf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said . . . If there are any debian-bsd people here maybe they can answer this. I have been doing some reading and have heard that some of the BSD variants are considered a better canidate os for a firewall system than linux (herertic!). OpenBSD in

Re: firewalls and bsd

1999-12-02 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I have discovered a fair amount of BSD advocacy turned anti-Linux. Like Linux zealots, BSDers are not above snobbery. I think both groups need to be open minded, we all have something we can learn from each other. Alas, the BSD licences would allow linux to 'borrow' or 'steal' good stuff