[SunHELP] Solaris as firewall for windows network

Kurt Huhn kurt at k-huhn.com
Sun Feb 15 22:14:23 CST 2004


On Feb 15, 2004, at 9:29 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote:
>
> YMMV, because I've used a 600 MHz PC running Linux as a firewall for a
> company with 120 users on a T1 for several years with zero unscheduled
> downtime.  Scheduled downtime has involved maybe 5 or 6 reboots for 
> kernel
> updates since late 2001.
>
> My experience says that a PC is just fine.
>


I believe you.  All networks are different.  The one I used as an 
OpenBSD firewall simply couldn't stand up to an agressive nmap scan of 
a subnet hanging off one interface.  It falls down.

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Kurt Huhn
kurt at k-huhn.com



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