Re: firewalls and bsd
Kenneth Scharf <scharkalvin@yahoo.com> writes:
> If there are any debian-bsd people here maybe they can
> answer this. I have been doing some reading and have
> heard that some of the BSD variants are considered a
> better canidate os for a firewall system than linux
> (herertic!). OpenBSD in particular was highly
> regarded in this (though it was said to be a RPITA to
> install). Any thoughts on this out there?
Reportedly, *BSD's have the fastest TCI/IP stack in the industry. They
are also pretty secure, out of the box. For example, while Linux
mounts disk partitions asynchronously, my FreeBSD installation mounts
syncronously by default.
I run Debian on my main workstation, and FreeBSD on my
NAT/Firewall/www-server/cvs-server box. That one is a P133/32M, and
copes beautifully with the load (well, the load is not *that* great).
Also, I cannot help but admire FreeBSD's mechanisms for
updates/upgrades. IMHO the "ports collection" system is remarkable.
It was very easy to install and configure.
HTH,
--
Arcady Genkin http://wgaf.dyndns.org
"'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who
loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)
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