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Hello, >From my experience and knowledge that I have gathered throughout the net I believe that OpenBSD is prolly the best OS to use as a firewall. If you are looking at Redhat linux I would go with a Server install without X and use Bastille to harden your box (http://www.bastille-linux.org). If I was you I would scour through the last few days of posts and look at some of the interesting posts regarding *nix firewall setup. There have been some real good posts that should be able to answer more of your in-depth questions. jm >Received: (qmail 26375 invoked from network); 27 Nov 2002 20:40:44 -0000 >Received: from outgoing2.securityfocus.com (HELO outgoing.securityfocus.com) (205.206.231.26) > by mail.securityfocus.com with SMTP; 27 Nov 2002 20:40:44 -0000 >Received: from lists.securityfocus.com (lists.securityfocus.com [205.206.231.19]) > by outgoing.securityfocus.com (Postfix) with QMQP > id C73AA8F309; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:48:47 -0700 (MST) >Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm >Precedence: bulk >List-Id: <security-basics.list-id.securityfocus.com> >List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >List-Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Delivered-To: moderator for [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Received: (qmail 12278 invoked from network); 27 Nov 2002 02:05:40 -0000 >Message-ID: <018001c295bc$2d30ac30$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: "Khuzairi Yahaya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Need Help Building Linux Based Firewall >Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:24:54 +0800 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >X-Priority: 3 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 > >Dear Tech Gurus, > >I was given the responsibility to setup a Linux Based Firewall. I am >looking at either Redhat, Mandrake and Suse >on intel platform and Sparc based. > >I need your opinion on the following: >1. Which OS is considered the best suited for a firewall? >2. What are the application/software required to be installed? >3. What security conserns/issues I need to address? >4. Should I use multiple processors? >5. Any website for reference? > >Any help is very much appreciated here. > >Many thanks. > >Kuzek > >
