Firewall Choice.

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There is a choice I have to make between
two operating systems:

1. FreeBSD
2. Linux

I have had Linux firewall before using
IP-chains. I have never played with the
IP-tables. Currently I have a OpenBSD firewall
which is using ipf but it seems that the OpenBSD
people are moving away from current implementation
so I do not think I will want to keep the system.
Another problem with OpenBSD is that I have tried
to install a patch that allows for ipsec (Nortel)
forwarding and I could not get it to work.
I was told that the patch works pretty good with
FreeBSD. I have also heard that there is support
to forward ipsec transport in Linux so the choice
is between those two.

I have not much experience with security on FreeBSD
and I have not tried the ip-tables ( they are kind of
new stuff to me ).

what would be your recommendation?

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            Greg Furmanek
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