>From my experience to this day and reading a lot of docs I
still think that OpenBSD firewall is better than Linux 2.2.x
based.  One very good thing about OpenBSD is the fact that
the os is shipped with encryption.  If you use it as 
firewall/router this may come handy for remote access.

Another option I was looking at is using 2.4 kernel but it is
really fresh so I am going to wait for some updates and see what
the distribution vendors going to do.  Another interesting 
addition to using Linux as firewall is RSBAC which makes the 
box really tight.  

I guess you just need to read a lot of docs on-line and decide 
what you want to do.





-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: John W [mailto:wisdom04@home.com]
-> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 9:53 PM
-> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
-> Subject: standalone firewall
-> 
-> 
->  I'd like to open by saying thank you to those who helped me 
-> with the CDRW 
-> issue and say that all is well. Thanks again. I am looking 
-> into setting up an 
-> old box as a firewall for a Linux box and one windows box. I 
-> have looked into 
-> the Linuxrouter project and what I found seems to be rather 
-> dated. I have at 
-> my disposal Linux Mandrake 7.2, RH 6.2&7.0, Debian 2.2 
-> Potato, FreeBSD 4.1 
-> and Storm Hail release. Would any of these suit my needs or 
-> might their be 
-> something specialized for this purpose. I am a newbie so 
-> user friendliness 
-> would be nice as well. I have no problems RTFM's to achieve 
-> what I am after.
-> All help appreciated!
-> -- 
-> John Wheat
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