At 04:55 PM 10/18/95 -0700, LASD DSB wrote:
>In appending to Ricardo's question, is NT a safe enviornment for a
>firewall. Our entire network is Unix based but we are slowly adding NT
>clients. We would very much like to implement an application-gateway on
>NT due to the price attraction of NT on a PC rather than a Unix
>workstation. Any comments?
>
>Thanks
>
>Fabian
>(310) 465-7869
>
If "price attraction" of NT is the only reason, why not get
BSDI Unix? It runs on PCs and seems to be the Unix of choice for
"9 out of 10" firewall implementors (who then do their own various
and sundry things to the kernel to "harden" it).
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Stephen Goldstein steveg @
cseic .
saic .
com
My first computer: A 24K Atari 800, Rev. A ROMS, November 1980
Disclaimer: That's not what I said.
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