Re: how secure is a linux firewall?



You or anybody else in your organization have any real on the job
experience with a Linux solutions? Because if there is none there, then
management is making the right call in not allowing that to occur. And
the better solution would be a FW appliance in their view.

Alot of experience in the company, I personally have installed alot
of linux more at the workstation/server level but with a number of
external ftp sites. I've port scanned and hardened hosts by turning
off services/ports. I'd be more then comfortable ensuring there are
zero open external ports and that sort of thing. The question wasn't
on my experience that's an unknown to anyone on this list but
was on the security of linux firewalls instead.

Ron

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