RE: Security urban legends

[dwelch () uswestmail net]

On Mon, 08 November 1999, dreamwvr wrote:

> since FW1 has announced that they will be porting over to linux 
> http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK19991105S0006
> this could make things interesting although i seriously doubt that 
> FW1 will become open source.. also IMHO they are going to have a difficult
> time convincing linuxians to switch from ipchains/ipfwadm or whatever the 
> next rev will be called which i can't remember to FW1.

FireWall-1 is, generally speaking, more fully featured than Linux's built-in firewalling features. That may be a 
compelling enough reason for some.

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