Subject: Re: Firewalls
From: Brent Cantrell (slycer9@mac.com)
Date: Tue Aug 07 2001 - 20:59:31 MDT
OK. Will you guys PLEASE get this the hell off the list!? We ALL get it,
one of you likes prepackaged, one likes do-it-yourself. Neither one of you
are being rational enough to be persuaded of anything one way or the other.
I'm sick of hearing it, and I'm sure everyone else is sick of hearing it.
Jeez, grow up.
> From: Robert Vogt IV <robert@arborhost.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 20:30:08 -0400 (EDT)
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: Firewalls
>
> Paul,
>
>>> Any 'plug+play' box such as these has a fixed amount of capabilities, in
>>> terms of route tables, etc.
>>
>> So does a piece of software, such as the IP chains software.
>
> BUT - you can recompile it, removing most of these
> limitations. My point is that Linux can handle most any corporate
> network, while a small 'box' can't.
>
>> You can buy a bigger Cisco router.
>
> Bigger != better.
>
>> Then you buy another one from somebody else... like duh.
>>
>> You seem to be suffering fo the delusion that any solution has
>> to be bulletproof for all time otherwise it's not a reasonable
>> solution. Why you have this delusion isn't clear.
>
> You really seem to like wasting money. ;)
>
>> Again: for 99% of home/hobby users, an off-the-shelf hub/router
>> box is a perfectly reasonable solution.
>
> That wasn't the point. Linux users are typically highly
> educated computer gurus who don't like the 'simplest' solution...
>
>> Now that's a headache since YDL doesn't even run on a IIci since
>> it has a 68030 (not PowerPC) processor.
>
> Did I say it did? I believe I mentioned NetBSD - but
> Linux does run on 68k series processors - MkLinux and uClinux...
>
>> If you want crappy Ethernet cards, sure. Better ones cost
>> more.
>
> An Ethernet card is an Ethernet card. I'm talking
> standard 802.3 compliant cards w/ 2 M hours MTBF.
>
>> Many of us don't have the time or really care.
>
> Then why are you using Linux?
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
> Robert Vogt IV
>
>
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