From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 15 13:52:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from modgud.nordicrecords.com (h21-168-107.nordicdms.com [207.21.168.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 79ACE152A4 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 13:52:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from walton@nordicrecords.com) Received: (qmail 21445 invoked by alias); 15 Oct 1999 20:52:36 -0000 Message-ID: <19991015205236.21444.qmail@modgud.nordicrecords.com> Received: (qmail 21432 invoked from network); 15 Oct 1999 20:52:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO walton) (207.21.168.137) by mail.nordicdms.com with SMTP; 15 Oct 1999 20:52:35 -0000 From: "Dave Walton" To: wwoods@cybcon.com Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 13:50:08 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Need help in reccomending FreeBSD.... Reply-To: walton@nordicrecords.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG wwoods@cybcon.com wrote: > > I am wanting to propose, that instead of useing a Microsoft > Firewall solution, we use a FreeBSD box as a firewall solution. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think MS even has a firewall solution. Last time I checked, they were very carefully avoiding any suggestion that Proxy Server might be used as a firewall. It seems they don't want the liability of claiming it has any security. > This is not for mission critical info, so I feel I have a good chance > of getting this. I am so sorry. Where I am, the more critical the data, the more likely a simple "this is more secure" will settle the debate. Good luck! Dave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Walton Webmaster, Postmaster Nordic Entertainment Worldwide walton@nordicdms.com http://www.nordicdms.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message