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Re: linux firewal question (newbie)


From: "Joseph S. D. Yao" <jsdy () cospo osis gov>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:42:36 -0400 (EDT)

I need to choice the best firewal option for linux, which is it?

Well ipfwadm is not a FW but a command .
I'm not a specialist, what i think is that FWTK is nice but not uses
lots of system ressources . For example ;, if u put 30 computers and a
FW , proxy beetween them and internet , u will see the rate really
slow down !!!

SQUID SEEMS to be really better . 

Like i said i'm not a specialist and i don't know evrything .

If u speak french i wrote a documentation on FWTK security and
installation u can find at www.altern.org/trom

Hardware is (relatively) cheap.  Figure out where your bottlenecks are
(NIC?  RAM?  CPU?), and get something an order of magnitude better.

Squid only passes HTTP, AFAIK.  It fits nicely in as a part of the FWTK
- which is just a toolkit to build a firewall, remember?  I put lots of
tools into any pre-fab toolkit I get.

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Joe Yao                         jsdy () cospo osis gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
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