Re: Most stable firewall distro

["riffraff" <riffraff@mail.ev1.net>]

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From: "Miguel Laborde" <miguel.laborde@canada.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 18:22:38 -0400

>Hello all,
>	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.
>	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.
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>	Thanks for your time,
>				Miguel
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I just used redhat 7.0 (I think, it's been a while), and removed everything that was completely unnecessary, then compiled a whole new kernel (I had to; I'm using the bridge-netfilter patch).  So, it isn't much of a redhat anymore, just uses redhat paths and rpm.