I was building custom redhat firewalls for business customers (put in place with a nice 2400 Cisco and CSU/DSU) in the old dialup days. Actually a linux firewall was the first thing I knew.... but then I learned about other LAYERS. If you would like to learn by doing, click http://obnosis.110mb.com/0BNOSIS-sec.doc But be careful, OpenOffice has as many security issues as Word! On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: > Lisa Kachold wrote: > > I just did a presentation on this at the last HackFest. > > > > And after working with IPCop, I found that personally, I would rather > > not have to futz with it all. I would rather have an ASA or another > > cisco DSL/firewall/switch that does Layer 2.5 VLAN, in place IDS, and > > VPN. > > > > Perhaps because that's what you know? :) (Don't we all prefer what we > know?) > > -- > -Eric 'shubes' > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- www.obnosis.com (503)754-4452 "Contradictions do not exist." A. Rand