I work for a company of 5000+ employees, and tonight, we just replaced a crippling commercial firewall with a customized Linux/iptables distribution that boots off a CD and requires no hard disks. So far, it's working great, and we have almost 3000 rules!! It's definitely faster than the "commercial solution" we had before, and I certainly think it is more secure than the firewall we use to use because netfilter/iptables affords you much more control than most firewalls I've used.
The final decision needs your own judgement, but I think you'll need to learn the competing products (checkpoint, iptables, etc.) first to make good judgement. However, on the issue of "performance", I've been able to push over 65Mbps through a Linux/Netfilter firewall with almost 3000 rules. You can probably expect better performance with a smaller ruleset. D. --- "Jesse.linux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > just a question, i'm planning to set up a > firewall/gateway for less than 50 > users.....i have a budget to buy a firewall > appliance..but it kinda costs > much...so what i'm planning is to buy a high end > server then use iptables to > serve as my firewall and gateway also....my question > is...is iptables secure > enough?....or do i still have to buy a firewall > software, llike checkpoint > for example? > > what can u suggest, iptable gurus? > > thanks.... > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards� http://movies.yahoo.com/
