Re: 2.9 as a firewall

[John Gould <johng@powinv.co.uk>]

Hi James,
         I'm running 3.0 both current and stable. After my initial
miss-configuration pf rocks! The overhead with pf replacing ipf is much
lower. I'd recommend 3.0-stable. Just my two penny worth.

John.

John Gould - Systems Engineer
Power Innovations Limited
Tel: +44 1234 223002 email: johng@powinv.co.uk

On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, James Mclean 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