Re: Need Help Building Linux Based Firewall

From: j m <security(at)wirerats.org>
Date: Wed Nov 27 2002 - 15:23:28 EST

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Hello,

>From my experience and knowledge that I have gathered throughout the net I
believe that OpenBSD is prolly the best OS to use as a firewall. If you are looking at Redhat linux I would go with a Server install without X and use Bastille to harden your box (http://www.bastille-linux.org). If I was you I would scour through the last few days of posts and look at some of the interesting posts regarding *nix firewall setup. There have been some real good posts that should be able to answer more of your in-depth questions.

jm

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