I have a situtation where a consumer level hardware firewall/router has reached it's capability limits, and we are not experiencing unacceptable performance. This firewall/router is used primarily for filtering and DNAT for a group of servers. We are looking at alternatives.
Since the machines behind the firewall/router are linux boxes, I have suggested using iptables. Based on previous experience with machines being exploited, there is some concern that using Linux will leave us vulnerable to OS exploits. I don't follow the security domain that closely, but I don't think linux has had many recent remote OS access exploits, if any. I know that user space daemons are another matter, and are frequently exploited, and I also know the linux kernel has had other types of exploits, like DoS. So, has linux had any remote OS access exploits? Is there a website with such records? Thanks, Dave _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
