[NTLUG:Discuss] hacker and firewall recommandation
Jason Fortezzo
fortezzo at directlink.net
Mon May 8 23:04:52 CDT 2000
At 04:01 PM 5/8/00, you wrote:
>For the security reason, I think I am going to have
>a fire wall built up. some one told that SonicWall SOHO
>(website http://www.sonicwall.com/firewall/index.html)
>is good in the lower price range wiht VPN feature. (at this monent,
>I can not afford Sisco router)
>
>Does anyone has better recommandtion?
I faced a similar dilemma but chose to go with OpenBSD. If you want a
FREE, super secure operating system (and that would be a requirement
for *my* firewall) with proactive source code audits (what a concept), go with
OpenBSD. You get IP Filter instead of ipfwadm/ipchains/netfilter which
IMHO is much more logical. Sure the documentation is nowhere near
the quantity available for Linux, but I was able to deal with it. Obsd seems
more bare to the bone, if you will. You have none of the fluff that seems
to litter RootHat, but if you so desire you can install most popular packages
via the Ports tree.
>How safe is it with this kind of firewall built?
IP Filter is just your run of the mill packet filter, so I feel it would
fit your
requirements. Anything more, and you would probably want to go with
Firewall-1.
If you do decide to go with obsd, help the developers out and buy a CD from
them at http://www.openbsd.org.
As always, YMMV.
Jason Fortezzo
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