On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Matthew Thompson wrote:
> Can someone tell me where I get the source for HP-UX, AIX and Solaris 2,
> and Borderware's modified BSDI Unix then? Bearing in mind I don't want to
> sign any agreements of the type I'd have to sign to see the source for NT,
> or pay any significant money, or do anything lllegal?
>
> And no, I don't want source for Linux, I want source for the currently
> shipping vendor versions of these OS's.
I'd like to stay out of this, given that I've made my views on the topic
clear in the past. However, I'll just note that, IMO, Linux and FreeBSD
both make very acceptable firewalls. The IPFW packet filtering mechanism
is simple and clean, and proxies are a bewwze to set up as chroot'ed and
as non-root. Plus, there's always IP Masquerading (and equivs) for NAT.
Of course, you have to (gasp!) understand your needs exactly and build
them yourself from well-known and -tested tools out there. You have to be
able to solve your own problems when they arrise. You have to understand
enough about security to be able to pull it off. But isn't that the way
it should be for all firewall administrators?
$0.02
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Todd Graham Lewis Linux! Core Engineering
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