Re: which distribution to choose

From: Eric Santonacci (Eric.Santonacci_at_talc.fr)
Date: 12/03/04

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    Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 14:26:51 +0100
To: focus-linux@securityfocus.com

    Hello,

    On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 05:31:00PM +0100, Jochen Witte wrote:
    > I would like to set up a firewall to protect a small company network.
    > [...]
    > My question is, which distribution to choose for such a
    > setup.

    Did you have a look to ipcop: www.ipcop.org?
    Or for a more generalistic distrib, there's a secure distribution
    server oriented which is call Trustix. www.trustix.com/net/org.

    Personnaly, I use IPCop at home and office with no problem.

    hope that helps 

    -- 
Eric Santonacci
TALC Informatique
http://www.talc.fr
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