Re: What is the disadvantage of Linux firewall, rather then usingready to use firewall (checkpoint, trustix, cyberguard, watchguard etc)

2003-02-15 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 08:21, Anthony E. Greene wrote: Dave Ihnat wrote: Relying on the infallibility of your software and administration as your only defense is [...] naive and dangerous. Amen. Why someone would choose to deprecate a tool which does no harm and provides an ADDITIONAL layer

Re: What is the disadvantage of Linux firewall, rather then usingready to use firewall (checkpoint, trustix, cyberguard, watchguard etc)

2003-02-14 Thread Anthony E. Greene
Dave Ihnat wrote: Relying on the infallibility of your software and administration as your only defense is, to be blunt--and I have been in these posts, far more than I usually am, because I'm quite worried that someone will believe your approach--naieve and dangerous. I agree. Anyone who

Re: What is the disadvantage of Linux firewall, rather then usingready to use firewall (checkpoint, trustix, cyberguard, watchguard etc)

2003-02-13 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 22:59, Budi Febrianto wrote: I'm playing around with RHL 8 to set up firewall with iptables. With Pentium II 300, 64 MB, 4 GB SCSI HD, 2 NIC's 100 Mbps. I think it enough. Enough if you use text mode. I run a good firewall on a Pentium/166 with 64 MB, a 1GB EIDE disk, and

Re: What is the disadvantage of Linux firewall, rather then usingready to use firewall (checkpoint, trustix, cyberguard, watchguard etc)

2003-02-13 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Budi Febrianto wrote: What are the different if I using RHL 8 as firewall, rather than using pre-built firewall. They say that the pre-built firewall come with hardened operating system, I think Linux already did. A packet filter is a packet filter. Some of the commercial

Re: What is the disadvantage of Linux firewall, rather then usingready to use firewall (checkpoint, trustix, cyberguard, watchguard etc)

2003-02-13 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Kent Borg wrote: These days Red Hat ships quite secure. Keep it up to date, use good Oh, come on...is this a troll? I usually have to spend a whole day installing a Red Hat box: an hour or two for the install, and the rest of the day locking down the default configuration.

Re: What is the disadvantage of Linux firewall, rather then usingready to use firewall (checkpoint, trustix, cyberguard, watchguard etc)

2003-02-12 Thread Raymundo Vega
A good choice is to use firewall builder and leaf. http://leaf.sourceforge.net/ http://www.fwbuilder.org/ it may help you raymundo Budi Febrianto wrote: Hi, Management urgently push me to implement firewall in our system. Yes... we do not have firewall. I'm playing around with RHL 8 to set