Need Help Building Linux Based Firewall

From: Khuzairi Yahaya (khuzairi@seccom.com.my)
Date: 11/27/02

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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:24:54 +0800

    Dear Tech Gurus,

    I was given the responsibility to setup a Linux Based Firewall. I am
    looking at either Redhat, Mandrake and Suse
    on intel platform and Sparc based.

    I need your opinion on the following:
    1. Which OS is considered the best suited for a firewall?
    2. What are the application/software required to be installed?
    3. What security conserns/issues I need to address?
    4. Should I use multiple processors?
    5. Any website for reference?

    Any help is very much appreciated here.

    Many thanks.

    Kuzek

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