Linus as firewall (was:setting up a VPN from scratch)

[Rich Edelman]

Oooooh, now Linus is not just maintaining and developing 2.5, but he's acting 
as a firewall too? Wow, that man sure can do a lot at once.

Sorry, couldn't let it go. :)

Rich

On Friday 21 February 2003 01:27 pm, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> 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.