Re: firewalls and bsd

1999-12-03 Thread Arcady Genkin
Sprovski Bozidar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is truly interesting. Since I wish to make an experimental firewall at > work, I > was wondering whether anyone can point me in the right direction. Where can I > find/download a FreeBSD?? www.freebsd.org -- Arcady Genkin

Re: firewalls and bsd

1999-12-03 Thread Sprovski Bozidar
This is truly interesting. Since I wish to make an experimental firewall at work, I was wondering whether anyone can point me in the right direction. Where can I find/download a FreeBSD?? Arcady Genkin wrote: > Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If there are any debian-bsd people h

Re: firewalls and bsd

1999-12-02 Thread Kenneth Scharf
> > I have discovered a fair amount of BSD advocacy > turned "anti-Linux". > Like Linux zealots, BSDers are not above snobbery. > I think both groups need to be open minded, we all have something we can learn from each other. Alas, the BSD licences would allow linux to 'borrow' or 'steal' good s

Re: firewalls and bsd

1999-12-02 Thread David S. Jackson
So then Kenneth Scharf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said . . . > If there are any debian-bsd people here maybe they can > answer this. I have been doing some reading and have > heard that some of the BSD variants are considered a > better canidate os for a firewall system than linux > (herertic!). OpenBS

Re: firewalls and bsd

1999-12-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 2 Dec 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: [ snip ] : Reportedly, *BSD's have the fastest TCI/IP stack in the industry. They : are also pretty secure, out of the box. For example, while Linux : mounts disk partitions asynchronously, my FreeBSD installation mounts : syncronously by default. ... whic

Re: firewalls and bsd

1999-12-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On 2/12/99 Kenneth Scharf wrote: OpenBSD in particular was highly regarded in this (though it was said to be a RPITA to install). Any thoughts on this out there? I installed OpenBSD and its not that bad, there is no pretty curses UI for the installer no, but its really quite simple (in some

Re: firewalls and bsd

1999-12-02 Thread Arcady Genkin
Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If there are any debian-bsd people here maybe they can > answer this. I have been doing some reading and have > heard that some of the BSD variants are considered a > better canidate os for a firewall system than linux > (herertic!). OpenBSD in partic

firewalls and bsd

1999-12-02 Thread Kenneth Scharf
If there are any debian-bsd people here maybe they can answer this. I have been doing some reading and have heard that some of the BSD variants are considered a better canidate os for a firewall system than linux (herertic!). OpenBSD in particular was highly regarded in this (though it was said