Linus as firewall (was:setting up a VPN from scratch)
Jonathan Hutchins
hutchins at tarcanfel.org
Fri Feb 21 18:21:33 CST 2003
Quoting Charles Steinkuehler <charles at steinkuehler.net>:
> Seriously though, the best reason for using something like linux to
> do firewalling/VPN is the flexability. If you don't need the
> flexability, it's really hard to go wrong with the black-box
> firewall products available now...
The problem I've got with Linux as a firewall is that nobody's updating
the application-specific modules (Quicktime) for the 2.4 Kernels.
THe "black boxes" on the other hand either allow you to
temporarily "dmz" a box or have modules for most popular apps.
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