building a firewall

[Marvin [GodfatherofSoul] Bellamy]

I know this is a LUG, but use OpenBSD for your firewall, especially if 
you're a beginner.  OpenBSD is designed from the ground up to be a 
secure distro and installation is easy if you're not worried about X. 
 Plus, since so many residential networkers use it there's a ton of 
documentation out there to get you going.

Kurt Kessler wrote:

>Ok, one other thing I thought about asking but then
>hesitated a bit...
>
>I know this is like asking "which distro is best?",
>but, I have Mandrake Secure Network Firewall, it says
>its a firewall and includes all the NIDS stuff also.
>OR, I have a rather nice tutorial on building my own
>NIDS with Red Hat 7.3, mySQL and php. Are there any
>other preconfigured ones out there. I was thinking
>that I might learn a bit more by learing what it
>is/does, and THEN building my own from scratch. I'm
>sure the Mandrake is quite a simple install, just
>wanted to check on other's suggestions for others.
>Thanks
>
>--- chuckx <chuckx at cold-sun.com> wrote:
>
>>On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 05:37:17PM -0700, Kurt
>>Kessler wrote:
>>
>>>Is a 75mhz box w/ 72mb suitable for a firewall?
>>>
>>That's more than enough power for a firewall.  It
>>doesn't take much
>>proccessing power to filter a residential internet
>>connection, be it
>>broadband or dial-up.
>>
>>Good luck.
>>
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