[LUNI] Firewall question

[Samir Faci]

OpenBSD has an excellent reputation for security.  If you're looking
for something simple, clean it's a great choice.

If I were to choose a firewall (independent of platforms), I would
choose PF.  Go figure, a firewall that a normal human can actually
comprehend.  Iptables as far as I know has the same functionality,
it's just far more cryptic in the syntax it chooses.

I use gentoo mostly because i'm used to it, if gentoo went under I'd
probably switch to some variant of BSD.

--
Samir

On 2/26/08, Branko Kotur <skie at dragonsvalley.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 February 2008 05:04:58 pm Eric MacAdie wrote:
>  > In the thread "What distro are you using?" I noticed a few people on the
>  > list are using some version of BSD for their firewall. I have a few
>  > questions about BSD firewalls.
>  >
>  > Why did you choose BSD over Linux?
>  > Why did you choose the BSD you chose?
>  > What firewall software do you use? I think NetBSD and FreeBSD can use
>  > pf, ipfw and ipf.
>  > Do you configure the firewall by hand, or use something like FWBuilder?
>  > (That is what I use for iptables.)
>  >
>  >
>  > Eric MacAdie
>
>
> I used to use OpenBSD and their pf for my firewall.  At that time, I edited
>  the rules by hand with some help from their basic tutorial on getting
>  started.  It worked quite well for me.  The only reason I stopped using it
>  was because I bought a Linksys router and installed dd-wrt on it and so I
>  could get rid of one extra computer that I didn't want anymore.  The main
>  reason I choose OpenBSD was because I just wanted a basic system with nothing
>  extra installed.  Their track record of security also influenced my decision
>  to go with them since I was using it as a firewall.
>
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