Re: Which firewall?: NetBSD/i386 vs Sygate Personal Firewall 5.0
From: svek (svek-NO-SPAM@gmx.net)Date: 07/26/02
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From: svek <svek-NO-SPAM@gmx.net> Date: 26 Jul 2002 10:04:06 GMT
Josef 'Jupp' Schugt <jupp@gmx.de> wrote in
news:slrnajue74.314.jupp@jupp.8m.com:
> In the case of GNU/Linux, Linux is the firewall ("Linux" being the
> kernel, GNU/Linux the complete OS). Note also that the kind of
> firewalling depends on the Linux version number (2.2 kernels support
> ipchains, 2.4 kernels use iptables - much documentation is on
> ipchains which are less powerful but simpler than iptables).
don't start this debate again since it will surely lead us nowhere.
and I find iptables to be simpler to use than ipchains yet more powerful.
> Hmm. What about giving OpenBSD a try? The only open barn that has
> been found in several years was in SSH. Fixed now. Only a dead remote
> accesses is a good remote access.
when it comes to remote root exploitation in the default installation yes,
otherwise (according to securityfocus.com) slackware linux (which isn't
even trying to be the most secure OS) has had less security bugs than
openBSD through at least the last six releases of the both O/S.
quite interesting don't you agree? :)
/svek
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