From: Patrick Schaaf <bof@bof.de>
To: Miguel Laborde <miguel.laborde@canada.com>
Cc: netfilter@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: Most stable firewall distro
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 07:37:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020704073756.B10726@oknodo.bof.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <JDECKCAAFHMLKEPABBNFAEAKCMAA.miguel.laborde@canada.com>; from miguel.laborde@canada.com on Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 06:22:38PM -0400
> I have a question here for those of you who use iptables heavily in a
> production environment. Right now I am about to replace a older Mandrake
> (release 7.2) with an updated linux firewall however before I go ahead and
> do that, I'm interested in knowing what you people consider the most stable
> distribution for a linux firewall.
Easy: all of them.
> I realize that the underlying OS and iptables software is common across all
> distributions however some distributions apply patches which others don't,
> and as result might be better suitable as a firewall.
No. Some distros package one or the other precanned firewall script.
You should be sceptical of all of them, and write your own, in my
opinion.
I don't know of any distribution that patched iptables itself with
stuff not available through CVS/patch-o-matic anyway.
If you are interested in security aspects besides the firewalling code,
please ask the appropriate fora.
best regards
Patrick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-04 5:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-03 22:22 Most stable firewall distro Miguel Laborde
2002-07-04 0:44 ` leolistas
2002-07-04 5:37 ` Patrick Schaaf [this message]
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2002-07-03 22:23 riffraff
2002-07-03 22:34 ` Antony Stone
2002-07-03 23:06 ` Ed Street
2002-07-03 23:16 ` Steve Fink
2002-07-03 23:22 George Vieira
2002-07-04 0:56 ` leolistas
2002-07-04 12:02 ` George Georgalis
2002-07-04 0:58 George Vieira
2002-07-04 1:06 ` Ed Street
2002-07-04 1:15 George Vieira
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