Re: 2.9 as a firewall

[Gordon Chalmers <gordonc@kestral.com.au>]

just my 2c worth

I am running 3.0 stable in a few places with less teething problems than 
when I started 2.9
     (but that's probably because I now know more than when I started with 2.9)

If you are running a firewall box than quite a lot of the issues here 
wouldn't apply
     only pf, ssh,kernel and nat

stick with -stable and watch the uptime roll in!

I am not qualified to speak on the SSH issues though...

Gordon
Kestral



At 04:02 PM 08/03/2002 +1030, you wrote:
>All,
>
>I am building a firewall box at the moment, and I have noticed a lot of 
>teething problems with the 3.0 distro which has caused me to stand back 
>from it a bit, I want some mega uptime!
>
>Does 2.9 have any problems that can be a security issue? The version of 
>OpenSSH supplied, is that an issue, should I grab the latest OpenSSH?
>
>Regards,
>
>
>James Mclean