From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jun 28 13:29:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.iol.ie (mail2.mail.iol.ie [194.125.2.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE72915467 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 13:28:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from martind@iol.ie) Received: from oemcomputer (dialup-317.cork.iol.ie [193.203.148.61]) by mail.iol.ie Sendmail (v8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA11230; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 21:28:23 +0100 (IST) Message-ID: <009901bec1a4$a15ee260$3d94cbc1@oemcomputer> From: "Martind" To: "Hans-Christoph Steiner" , Subject: Re: Using one FreeBSD box as router/firewall/vpn Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 21:17:20 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Using Linux as a firewall is madness, FreeBSD is MUCH more secure, for things as web service or clients on a network Linux is fine, but for a router, firewall or vpn controller its madness. If your router was to be taken down, oh well there goes your network, I think using Linux inside is ok but for a secure connection point FreeBSD would be the choice. Just my opinion Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message