[PLUG] redhat 8.0, ip forwarding, routing.

Jeme A Brelin jeme at brelin.net
Fri Nov 8 02:57:06 UTC 2002


On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 gilmanhunt at attbi.com wrote:
> I'm setting up a new firewall for our company. I normally use
> slackware, but I'm tired of the slackware way :) Luckily, there are
> many other distributions available.

I gotta ask...

Why would you use something OTHER than a floppy distribution for a
firewall?

but if you need more space, just build the software you need (a kernel,
sysvinit, a shell, maybe login, sshd, syslog, ipchains, etc.) and put it
on a CD.  You set everything up with init scripts anyway and your only
disk is read-only.  If you get hacked, just hit the big red button and
you're back to where you started.

I don't understand why people want a hard disk in their firewalls.

J.
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