[PLUG] Firewalls

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Wed Nov 30 03:20:51 UTC 2005


On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, fh hillsboro wrote:

> Anybody using a dedicated Linux box as a firewall?

   From 1 June 1999 until the middle of last September I ran a floppfw box. I
worked great until it died. There were four reboots: a motherboard failure
after seven months, an attempt to upgrade floppyfw from 1.09, and two power
outages here.

   Not bad performance for 6.25 years.

Rich

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