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

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Now Linus is very capable, impressive, and all around a really great 
guy, but I doubt that you would get very many packets by hooking network 
cables to his 'ports'.

Rich Edelman wrote:
> 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.
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> Sorry, couldn't let it go. :)
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> Rich
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> On Friday 21 February 2003 01:27 pm, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
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>>Quoting Charles Steinkuehler <charles at steinkuehler.net>:
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>>>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...
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>>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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