David Demland wrote: > I have heard and read that because of the way Intel chips are setup it is > easier to have a security problem than with a Motorola chip. This would mean > that a firewall that is comprised of a Motorola chip is better than an Intel > chip. This is true? The assumption here is that both are running Linux. Yes and no. No because a firewall probably wont be running too many processes/programs that arent installed by admin anyways, right? Yes, because if it IS compromised, it might... Every intel processor since the first pentium has had one flaw or another (NOTE: Im not sure on the status of the PPro or Xeon). Many allow user-level processes to freeze the CPU. The only solutions to this are microcode updates provided in updated BIOSes... I am aware of one such lockup for a Cyrix chip, and none for the AMD line at all, although I havent paid much attention to if the Athlon has such a bug or not. -- jkenner @ mindspring . com__ I Support Linux: _> _ _ |_ _ _ _| Working Together To <__(_||_)| )| `(_|(_)(_| To Build A Better Future. |