From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick Schaaf Subject: Re: Most stable firewall distro Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 07:37:56 +0200 Sender: netfilter-admin@lists.samba.org Message-ID: <20020704073756.B10726@oknodo.bof.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from miguel.laborde@canada.com on Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 06:22:38PM -0400 Errors-To: netfilter-admin@lists.samba.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Miguel Laborde Cc: netfilter@lists.samba.org > 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