From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 15 11: 9:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EEEE151A1 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 11:09:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA05329; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 11:29:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 11:29:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: wwoods@cybcon.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need help in reccomending FreeBSD.... In-Reply-To: <19991015162534.1817.cpmta@c008.sfo.cp.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 15 Oct 1999 wwoods@cybcon.com wrote: > At 2:30PM (West Coast Time) I am going to a meeting at work > with the Head of Computer Security, 2 NT Admins and two people in > charge of the project I am working on. I am wanting to propose, > that instead of useing a Microsoft Firewall solution, we use a > FreeBSD box as a firewall solution. > > This is not for mission critical > info, so I feel I have a good chance of getting this. I also have > lined up the 2nd in charge of our *nix dept to help me set up and > maintian (I can do it, but it always looks better to have a "higher > up" to validate you) the firewalls. What I would like from > the list, is some REAL WORLD valid reason why FreeBSD should be > used over a MS firewall solution. > > We are a MS shop, no doubt > about that, so this will be an uphill battle, but I believe that > with the right info, I can get FreeBSD as the firewall. Aside from > the fact that FreeBSD will cost less to set up, will allow us to > use that old P100 we have put on the shelf and will cost less to > maintain.....can you people supply me with some more valid reasons > to go with FreeBSD over MS? > > And, yes, I know ftp.cdrom.com and > yahoo.com all use FreeBSD, as well as MS Hotmail service, but I am > looking for some corporate types out there who had to convince > their bosses that FreeBSD was a better choice to help me on this. In the future if you'd wrap lines at 70 chars we'd all appreciate it. but for some reasons for freebsd... ~ % uptime 10:58AM up 218 days, 6:29, 1 user, load averages: 0.33, 0.28, 0.28 ~ % uname -srm FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386 (yes that's 3.0-current and it's SMP, ph33r that serves several hundred kilobytes a second) ~ % uptime 10:53AM up 118 days, 16:51, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 ~ % uname -srm FreeBSD 3.2-19990618-STABLE i386 FreeBSD is cool becuase it's a "setup and leave it be system" FreeBSD defines 0 administration. :) FreeBSD because we'll actually do something if you find a bug. hope this helps. -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer - http://www.wintelcom.net/ [bright@wintelcom.net] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message