Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 16:24:41 -0500 From: Noah Dunker <ndunker@jccc.net> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: firewall+router:Free or Open Message-ID: <C18E28011272D41180AD00B0D0496C0801C02163@ns-exch05>
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I've used both. If I'm gonna make a stand-alone box that's going to be maintenance-free, especially one that I'm not going to be in posession of (like a firewall for a friend or someone less skilled in UNIX and I don't want 'em messing with it) I usually build it off FreeBSD and lock everything down. sometimes I'll put a fake finger daemon on that "draws the finger for them" :) on it. At home, I'm using FreeBSD. I'm moving in with My Fiancee though (getting married saturday!!!) and she's just started running OpenBSD on her firewall and she thinks it's the better way to go. "it's more secure" is kind of a moot point when you are going to shut off EVERYTHING though. ipfw is sooo much slicker than OpenBSD's ipf, and with all the config files for IPFilter on OpenBSD... It's more secure out of the box, but building a firewall/router (especially a PPP/Dialup router) it's just more practical to use FreeBSD to start with, and tweek it as you need... By the way... OPENBSD adorns my license plates on my car... so I'm definitely an OpenBSD/Net-Security zealot, but FreeBSD is just a better starting point for this sort of thing. FreeBSD and OpenBSD are basically one in the same, with different viewpoints taken on kernel development and userland packaging. I'll see how my soon-to-be-wife's firewall works, and I'll definitely be looking forward to getting CableModem in a month or so, when the both of us can afford it! My opinion would probably differ significantly if it were going to be a bastion host or corporate firewall/IPSec-vpn setup. Noah Dunker Systems Analyst/Technician Johnson County Community College -----Original Message----- From: Bzdik BSD [mailto:bzdik@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 3:23 PM To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: firewall+router:Free or Open Hi, is there any true benefit running OpenBSD vs FreeBSD. The number of patches after releases are out is about the same and upgrading to -stable is a bit different to the point of painful on Open, unless I missed something. Is it possible to have an intelligent discussion on the subj at all? ;-)) I'd go with a hardware solution if it were up to me, btw. Greets __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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