standalone firewall - Linux VS BSD firewalls

[P-K]

I have often wondered about this. I should just dig in and install a bsd box just to check it out. 

But what are the advantages that Open or Net BSD have over linux when talking about security and firewalls? I have heard this time and again and I am just currious as to the facts of the matter. 
 
JLF I know you use BSD what do you think?

Thanks 

P-K

-----Original Message-----
From: "Furmanek, Greg" <Greg.Furmanek@hit.cendant.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 10:27:04 -0500
To: "'plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us'" <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Subject: RE: standalone firewall


> 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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