Re: Linux Firewalling - Further Adventures with DSL
Your supplier is wrong. There's no reason to spend the cash for a
proprietary system. The problem is that non-technical folks are
risk-averse, and risk aversion means "buy a product somebody else
advertised."
ap
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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu
On Fri, 9 May 2003, William Cooper wrote:
> Hello all,
> one of the company's suppliers got wind that we where going to host
> web services on a DSL connection. They are now trying to convince
> management (and me) that Linux as a company firewall is not acceptable,
> that we need a CISCO PIX or equivilant to protect the company's network.
> Is this true? I have been using Debian as a firewall for a while now
> with no complaints, but on a dial-up. Putting the machine with a fixed
> IP for possible attacks is a different matter. Does anyone have
> information about the situability of Linux as a firewall over long
> periods? A comparison of Linux versus a hardware or proprietry
> software/hardware solution?
> Any other advice?
>
> Thanks
> Bill
>
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