Re: What is the disadvantage of Linux firewall, rather then usingready to use firewall (checkpoint, trustix, cyberguard, watchguard etc)

2003-02-15 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 08:21, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > Dave Ihnat wrote: > > Relying on the infallibility of your software and administration as your > > only defense is [...] naive and dangerous. Amen. Why someone would choose to deprecate a tool which does no harm and provides an ADDITIONAL la

RE: What is the disadvantage of Linux firewall, rather then using ready to use firewall (checkpoint, trustix, cyberguard, watchguard etc)

2003-02-14 Thread Douglas, Stuart
ather then using ready to use firewall (checkpoint, trustix, cyberguard, watchguard etc) Dave Ihnat wrote: > Relying on the infallibility of your software and administration as your > only defense is, to be blunt--and I have been in these posts, far more > than I usually am, because I'm

Re: What is the disadvantage of Linux firewall, rather then usingready to use firewall (checkpoint, trustix, cyberguard, watchguard etc)

2003-02-14 Thread Anthony E. Greene
Dave Ihnat wrote: Relying on the infallibility of your software and administration as your only defense is, to be blunt--and I have been in these posts, far more than I usually am, because I'm quite worried that someone will believe your approach--naieve and dangerous. I agree. Anyone who wishes

Re: What is the disadvantage of Linux firewall, rather then using ready to use firewall (checkpoint, trustix, cyberguard, watchguard etc)

2003-02-14 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 02:01:49PM -0500, Kent Borg wrote: > > With all due respect, not only is that a very misguided attitude, it's a > > dangerous one to promulgate. > > First, a point of order: if you are sincere about the "with all due > respect"-part, then don't suggest that I am a cracker.

Re: What is the disadvantage of Linux firewall, rather then usingready to use firewall (checkpoint, trustix, cyberguard, watchguard etc)

2003-02-13 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Kent Borg wrote: > These days Red Hat ships quite secure. Keep it up to date, use good Oh, come on...is this a troll? I usually have to spend a whole day installing a Red Hat box: an hour or two for the install, and the rest of the day locking down the default configuration.

Re: What is the disadvantage of Linux firewall, rather then usingready to use firewall (checkpoint, trustix, cyberguard, watchguard etc)

2003-02-13 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Budi Febrianto wrote: > What are the different if I using RHL 8 as firewall, rather than using > pre-built firewall. They say that the pre-built firewall come with > hardened operating system, I think Linux already did. A packet filter is a packet filter. Some of the commerci

Re: What is the disadvantage of Linux firewall, rather then using ready to use firewall (checkpoint, trustix, cyberguard, watchguard etc)

2003-02-13 Thread Kent Borg
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:58:58AM -0600, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:02:54AM -0500, Kent Borg wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 07:56:23AM -0600, Dave Ihnat wrote: > > > We all urgently push you to implement a firewall...any firewall... > > > > No we don't (with or without smi

Re: What is the disadvantage of Linux firewall, rather then using ready to use firewall (checkpoint, trustix, cyberguard, watchguard etc)

2003-02-13 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:02:54AM -0500, Kent Borg wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 07:56:23AM -0600, Dave Ihnat wrote: > > We all urgently push you to implement a firewall...any firewall... > > No we don't (with or without smilies), I do not advise a firewall > unless you are trying to protect s

Re: What is the disadvantage of Linux firewall, rather then usingready to use firewall (checkpoint, trustix, cyberguard, watchguard etc)

2003-02-13 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 22:59, Budi Febrianto wrote: > I'm playing around with RHL 8 to set up firewall with iptables. > With Pentium II 300, 64 MB, 4 GB SCSI HD, 2 NIC's 100 Mbps. I think it > enough. Enough if you use text mode. I run a good firewall on a Pentium/166 with 64 MB, a 1GB EIDE disk, a

RE: What is the disadvantage of Linux firewall, rather then using ready to use firewall (checkpoint, trustix, cyberguard, watchguard etc)

2003-02-13 Thread Dan Jallits
using ready to use firewall (checkpoint, trustix, cyberguard, watchguard etc) On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 07:56:23AM -0600, Dave Ihnat wrote: > We all urgently push you to implement a firewall...any firewall... No we don't (with or without smilies), I do not advise a firewall unless you are t

Re: What is the disadvantage of Linux firewall, rather then using ready to use firewall (checkpoint, trustix, cyberguard, watchguard etc)

2003-02-13 Thread Kent Borg
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 07:56:23AM -0600, Dave Ihnat wrote: > We all urgently push you to implement a firewall...any firewall... No we don't (with or without smilies), I do not advise a firewall unless you are trying to protect some MS Windows garbage and that is a losing battle you are better off

Re: What is the disadvantage of Linux firewall, rather then using ready to use firewall (checkpoint, trustix, cyberguard, watchguard etc)

2003-02-13 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 07:56:23AM -0600, Dave Ihnat wrote: > > > I'm playing around with RHL 8 to set up firewall with iptables. > > With Pentium II 300, 64 MB, 4 GB SCSI HD, 2 NIC's 100 Mbps. I think it > > enough. > > Nope--more memory required. At least 128. Actually more memory is only req

Re: What is the disadvantage of Linux firewall, rather then using ready to use firewall (checkpoint, trustix, cyberguard, watchguard etc)

2003-02-13 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:59:11AM +0700, Budi Febrianto wrote: > Management urgently push me to implement firewall in our system. > Yes... we do not have firewall. We all urgently push you to implement a firewall...any firewall... (SmileyifIdidsmileyswhichIdon't). > I'm playing around with RHL 8

Re: What is the disadvantage of Linux firewall, rather then using ready to use firewall (checkpoint, trustix, cyberguard, watchguard etc)

2003-02-13 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:59:11AM +0700, Budi Febrianto wrote: > I'm playing around with RHL 8 to set up firewall with iptables. > With Pentium II 300, 64 MB, 4 GB SCSI HD, 2 NIC's 100 Mbps. I think it > enough. Note that 64MB is not considered enough - Red Hat Linux 8 requires a minimum of 128MB

Re: What is the disadvantage of Linux firewall, rather then usingready to use firewall (checkpoint, trustix, cyberguard, watchguard etc)

2003-02-12 Thread Raymundo Vega
A good choice is to use firewall builder and leaf. http://leaf.sourceforge.net/ http://www.fwbuilder.org/ it may help you raymundo Budi Febrianto wrote: Hi, Management urgently push me to implement firewall in our system. Yes... we do not have firewall. I'm playing around with RHL 8 to set up

What is the disadvantage of Linux firewall, rather then using ready to use firewall (checkpoint, trustix, cyberguard, watchguard etc)

2003-02-12 Thread Budi Febrianto
Hi, Management urgently push me to implement firewall in our system. Yes... we do not have firewall. I'm playing around with RHL 8 to set up firewall with iptables. With Pentium II 300, 64 MB, 4 GB SCSI HD, 2 NIC's 100 Mbps. I think it enough. I configure firewall based on Rusty's IPTABLES How to

Re: Checkpoint

2001-03-11 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 05:20:15PM -0400, Michael Burger wrote: : You're much better off asking someone at Checkpoint, the vendor from : which you purchased Checkpoint, or a Checkpoint mailing list. I'm with Mike on that, but since I've been running the product for more than a

Re: Checkpoint

2001-03-10 Thread Michael Burger
You're much better off asking someone at Checkpoint, the vendor from which you purchased Checkpoint, or a Checkpoint mailing list. On Sat, 10 Mar 2001 19:13:09 +0300, Biniam Sahlezghi wrote: >Hi >My checkpoint is not allow me to enter to the policy editor and to others. It say &qu

Checkpoint

2001-03-10 Thread Biniam Sahlezghi
Hi My checkpoint is not allow me to enter to the policy editor and to others. It say "No response from the server Cannot connect to the server" I thought it was a password problem but now it is not.When I checkĀ  the event viewer for error logs it says "Login failed you pri

Re: Linux VPN client (checkpoint)

2001-01-03 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 01:45:48PM -0500, David Brett wrote: : checkpoint has beta software for linux. I have not been able to get my : hands on it yet. Check Point's only Linux offerings are MetaIP and FireWall-1/VPN-1. Both are released, and shipping products. As far as I know, there

Re: Linux VPN client (checkpoint)

2001-01-03 Thread David Brett
checkpoint has beta software for linux. I have not been able to get my hands on it yet. david On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Johnathan Smith wrote: > I also been trying to find a way to make my redhat > computer access my firm. My firm uses checkpoint VPN > client?? > > Can this be d

Re: Linux VPN client (checkpoint)

2001-01-03 Thread Heman Leopando
You can always look into FreeS/WAN (http://www.freeswan.org). I know that Checkpoint VPN supports IPsec and since FreeS/WAN is an IPsec compliant package you should look into it. Heman Johnathan Smith wrote: > I also been trying to find a way to make my redhat > computer access my fi

Linux VPN client (checkpoint)

2001-01-03 Thread Johnathan Smith
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