On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, juaid wrote:
> In this days someone sayed that he did not recommend to use a RH 7.3 box
> as router, and recommended the Linux Router Project
The only reason to avoid a full-blow distro for routing and/or firewalling
is security. LRP (and similar) run in RAM, so you don't have to worry
about someone hacking your box--a simple reboot will set you back to your
configured defaults from write-protected media.
You also don't need to worry about someone compiling code, using other
services, or otherwise behaving badly, since you pretty much have a
kernel, some drivers, a text editor, and nothing else.
That said, Red Hat (or any other full distro) will work fine as a router
or firewall. It's just a question of how much time you want to spend
securing the environment.
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friendship I share with my collection of singing potatoes."
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