On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Danny Zak wrote: > we are trying to lookup some information about which distr. to use for > this linux ipchains, filters, nats.. ?
For Linux, there are plenty of "hardening" projects which produce a lot of security tools. You can also do a fair to good ammount of hardening yourself depending on how familiar you are with the system. www.linuxsecurity.com is a good place to start looking at things. > i saw freebsd popping up all the time; is this stabler; faster; or different > (in which way?); or limited ? in comparision to a linux (redhat) distr ? The *BSD's are different- stability is a function of which kernel you pick no matter what the OS. NetBSD used to have the fastest networking code, OpenBSD ships with a reasonably secure default, and FreeBSD is probably the most prevalent of the BSDs. > as system op; i'm more familiar with linux distris; is it better to > stay with linux ? Pick the one that has the code that most meets your needs. Firewalling is like car buying, there are good choices for what you want to do, and poor choices for what you want to do. First you have to decide what it is you want to do, then you can see if the vehicle meets those needs. Paul ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Robertson "My statements in this message are personal opinions [EMAIL PROTECTED] which may have no basis whatsoever in fact." _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
