Re: not using debian as firewall!
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, David Bristel wrote:
: That was my point, you CAN turn the services off, but having those services is
: the ONLY reason why any UNIX MIGHT be considered a poor choice of a firewall.
: And, with gated, the only reason why Cisco would hold an edge is that the PCI
: bus gets saturated too easily.
Huh? I missed the beginning of this thread, but Cisco makes a firewall
based on a PC platform with a PCI bus!! It's the PIX firewall. The
biggest advantage I can see is that it boots from flash RAM.
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