[Gllug] Opinions on Smoothwall and other firewalls

Simon Stewart sms at lateral.net
Tue Oct 9 09:48:28 UTC 2001


On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 09:16:56AM +0100, tet at accucard.com wrote:

> PS. Of course, the truly paranoid would run both BSD and Linux firewalls
>     (perhaps using VMware or similar) to ensure that even if a vulnerability
>     was found in one, they would still have the other one to protect them.
>     We run multiple firewalls from different vendors at work, for precisely
>     that reason.

Perhaps setting the BSD box to do transparent filtering? Very funky,
and a devil to try and crack. No pun intended.

Cheers,

Simon

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