I, personally, use Red Hat Linux for my firewalls. Yeah...I know the
arguments about BSD versus Linux. But I don't leave my installation
default, and I put a minimum of stuff on the firewalls. IPChains is very
good for firewall rules, and alot more secure than the previous IPFWAdmin
implementation of firewall rules under Linux.
I don't use the pretty GUI tools either. Too much hassle, and the potential
is there for mistakes. I don't trust programmers to do things
correctly....I know too many...>grin<
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>The GnatBox was terrific! BTW, it runs FreeBSD.
You can of course do everything the GNAT box can do for $ but do more on a
FreeBSD box for free. like more ethernet interfaces, T1 interfaces, etc,
etc.
Australian Darren Reed's stateful "ip filter" and "ipnat" utilities on
FreeBSD are awesome and commercial quality firewalling tools.
You wouldn't have the web gui, but setting up a packet filter is NOT made
easier with a GUI, just like setting up DNS isn't really helped by a GUI.
There's too much going on under the hood/GUI that you must understand and
the GUI doesn't help your understanding one bit.
Len
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