From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 30 23: 4:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bootes.ebtech.net (bootes.ebtech.net [206.152.142.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 519D815051 for ; Sun, 30 May 1999 23:04:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@geeky1.ebtech.net) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by bootes.ebtech.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with UUCP id BAA18640; Mon, 31 May 1999 01:08:17 -0400 Received: from localhost (paul@localhost) by geeky1.ebtech.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id BAA31833; Mon, 31 May 1999 01:36:18 -0400 Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 01:36:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Anderson To: "Mark L. Holloway" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it a REAL Firewall? In-Reply-To: <19990531033057.5950.rocketmail@web505.yahoomail.com> 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 Sun, 30 May 1999, Mark L. Holloway wrote: > > What is the difference between FreeBSD's Firewall (or any of the free > firewalls) vs. Gauntlet, Raptor, Cyberguard, or Checkpoint. They all > run on Windows NT (among other OSs) and cost approximately $20,000. > The commercial ones include very nicely manuals printed on a high-quality offset press, along with the warm and fuzzy feeling that you have someone to shoot when things go disastrously wrong. The latter feature is often unnecessary with FreeBSD and Linux, as things rarely go disastrousely wrong(never had it happen to me before). TTYL! --- Paul Anderson - Self-employed Megalomaniac paul@geeky1.ebtech.net Member of the Sarnia Linux User's Group http://www.sar-net.com/slug http://zephyr.sellad.on.ca/~paul "BETTER LIVING THROUGH RECKLESS EXPERIMENTATION" - Motto of The Mad Scientist To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message