Hello,
On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 01:14:58PM +0100, Steve Pearse wrote:
> What do the panel think of Linux, would you seriously use it as a
> firewall in a commercial environment ?
This does completely depend on what you except from the Linux Box in a
Firewall Installation.
You get:
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IP Packet Filter, Masquerading, NAT, Port Rederiction
Thight, pretty Secure System with Sources
Some Applications for Proxy/Serving like Squid, BIND, anon-ftp
VPN from CIPE or IPSec or ssh
SSL Support, including a CA
Store+Forward Email Relaying
Some Basic Tools for (transparent) Application Level Proxies (not realy
free is the TIS Toolkit)
You don't get: (at least not ready for prime time yet)
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Turnkey Solution (I dont count Watchguard as a Linux System, since you lost
all the shell flexibility)
E-Mail Virus Protection
Well Known Vendor Support
NT
Integration into Netware or NT Domains
A complete System with Admin console
For a small to mid-ramge Network one should realy think if Linux is a cheap
Solution. Its surely is a good and flexible one.
Greetings
Bernd
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