[SunRescue] Router vs. PC with router/firewall software...

Mike Hebel rescue at sunhelp.org
Fri Jan 5 11:27:20 CST 2001


>>OpenBSD beats every commercial unix on out-of-the-box security.
>>It's not hard to get Solaris to a reasonable configuration but
>>OpenBSD will always win because it's designed specifically for
>>improved security.

I'm sold - OpenBSD is it!  Now I just have to learn how to set it up and see
if I can't use one of my old SPARC boxes with it.  If not I have an old
Compaq Presario all-in-one type box that will hold two Ethernet cards.  That
and an AMD 5x133 upgrade should provide a nice self-contained box.  I could
probably even set it to run the firewall log to the screen to see the rules
in action.  (A waste of bandwidth/processing power I know but it would look
cool! ;-)

Mike Hebel




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