Re: firewall: linux vs. freebsd
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 10:18:03PM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote:
| I am planning on building a firewall
| here. There is a lot of hype about
| Freebsd being great for firewalls,
| and books regarding Linux firewalls.
|
| I love Linux, but I believe in
| finding the best solution for a
| problem. My question is not which OS
| is better for a firewall, but which
| one you would use (or do use).
I use Debian, kernel 2.4.17 and iptables.
Why?
I like Debian and use it on my workstation. Thus it is the only
choice for a firewall on my workstation. (Same goes for the laptop at
work). It also happens that with my current hardware, my workstation
is the only system that can perform the masquerading on the DSL line
(the only box with 2 NICs, the other *nix box needs an ISA NIC and the
other systems are my dad's and brother's windows machines).
Since I'm going to be moving soon I'm going to take the ISA NIC out of
my dad's old machine and put it in my old machine and use that as the
router. It will also run Debian+2.4.17+iptables because I know and
like the system. I've never used *BSD. The only other unices I've
used are RedHat (still linux, anyways) and Solaris.
-D
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A)bort, R)etry, B)ang it with a large hammer
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