Please invest in O'Reilly's Building Internet Firewalls book (or a suitable alternative). The questions you've asked cannot possibly be answered in a short response (or even a long one).
-J. On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 21:24, Khuzairi Yahaya wrote: > Dear Tech Gurus, > > I was given the responsibility to setup a Linux Based Firewall. I am > looking at either Redhat, Mandrake and Suse > on intel platform and Sparc based. > > I need your opinion on the following: > 1. Which OS is considered the best suited for a firewall? > 2. What are the application/software required to be installed? > 3. What security conserns/issues I need to address? > 4. Should I use multiple processors? > 5. Any website for reference? > > Any help is very much appreciated here. > > Many thanks. > > Kuzek > > >
