Re: Security: FreeBSD vs OpenBSD

["Darren Spruell" <Darren_Spruell@sento.com>]

the one place I see the problem is scalability by ways of
administration.  It could get hairy managing pf on many hosts.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Gordon Grieder [mailto:grub@grub.net]
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 11:47 AM
To: Martin Marconcini
Cc: Generic Player; David S.; misc@openbsd.org; Chris
Subject: Re: Security: FreeBSD vs OpenBSD


On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 02:59:05PM -0330, Martin Marconcini wrote:

> You are suggesting that we should create Mini-Firewalls on every box?
> (that is, by configuring pf/ipf or whatever?)

Local services has had rudimentary access control for years, by way of 
hosts.allow and hosts.deny.

pf is already there, why not use it?



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