Best firewall gateway version of Linux ?

Richard Cottrill richard_c at tpg.com.au
Thu Jan 17 20:24:41 EST 2002


NBH - 'Not Built Here'

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:linux-admin at lists.samba.org]On
> Behalf Of Alex Satrapa
> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 11:44 PM
> To: Richard Cottrill
> Cc: CLUG Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Best firewall gateway version of Linux ?
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, January 16, 2002, at 11:17 , Richard Cottrill wrote:
> 
> > I'm pretty sure that all of the problems with Smoothwall that you've
> > mentioned no longer exist. I suspect the NBH syndrome.
> 
> You're using Smoothwall GPL?  At the time, those problems did exist, and 
> there were no changes to SmoothWall GPL for about 6 months (and no 
> notice of changes being planned either).  During that time, I moved over 
> to Debian and dragged the web interface with me - so the dialup box I'm 
> setting up now is a combination of SmoothWall, webmin and Debian.
> 
> NBH?
> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: linux-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:linux-
> >> admin at lists.samba.org]On
> >> Behalf Of Alex Satrapa
> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 8:38 PM
> >> To: CLUG Mailing List
> >> Subject: Re: Best firewall gateway version of Linux ?
> >>
> >>
> >> SmoothWall GPL at the time did not let you do things like:
> >>   - SSH into your network from outside
> >>   - Set up a tunnel between your network and someone else's (or vice
> >> versa)
> 
> 




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