Re: Optimal Home/Office Firewall Solution

From: Britt A. Green (bugtraq@experimentzero.org)
Date: 07/13/02 

From: "Britt A. Green" <bugtraq@experimentzero.org>
To: <security-basics@securityfocus.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 13:13:49 -0700

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ash" <ashcrow@phreaker.net>
To: "Tim Bowes" <tjb@e-n-o.org>
Cc: <security-basics@securityfocus.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: Optimal Home/Office Firewall Solution

<snip>

> OpenBSD's PF is an excellent firewall. It is fully configurable, and has
> a nice amoutn of documentaion on the net.

This brings up something I've been wondering about this week. Say I wanted
to implement a firewall for a small home network. I know that OpenBSD
provides excellent security. However while I know a little Unix, I would by
no means call myself very knowledgeable about it. Would it be better for me
to use a Windows-based firewall software program that would be fairly easy
to learn, or learn-as-I-go with OpenBSD?

In other words, OpenBSD would probably be superior, but is it worth using
while I climb the steep learning curve?

Britt 

--
"My mom says I'm cool."

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