Re: Secure Network Design (DMZ, LAN, etc)

From: Volker Kindermann (bugtraq@secspace.de)
Date: 08/19/02 

Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 21:37:24 +0200
From: Volker Kindermann <bugtraq@secspace.de>
To: security-basics@securityfocus.com

> My other main question regarding firewalls is whether or not a Linux
> box running IPTables would be good enough or should I look at a
> commercial > solution (Checkpoint, Raptor, etc). I have a very tight
> budget so IPTables is attractive, but I want to make sure I have a
> solid long-term solution that can handle lots of traffic.

Here I would recommend you a machine running OpenBSD with pf. If you
won't go with writing firewall-rules with a texteditor, there's a great
gui frontend for this: fwbuilder (http://fwbuilder.sourceforge.net).

I'm sure OpenBSD's pf will outperform Linux with iptables and
additionally pf IMHO is more stable than iptables. Give it a try. :-)

 -volker

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