[Hudlug] Blueyonder Broadband

[Rob Shakir]

Hi,

You may want to try a distro such as IP COP  this is a distro that is developed to be a router /firewall. There are other distros like this such as Smoothwall but IMHO IPCop is the best. IPCop can be found at: http://www.ipcop.org/. Also check out the Smoothwall site at http://www.smoothwall.org/. I think you will find these distros to be a little better than RH 7.2 at the task you have in mind. 

I hope this helps :) 

Shak 

On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 17:06, Chris Wood wrote:
> On Friday 06 September 2002 16:39 pm, you wrote:
> >
> > Be very careful with RH and security.  You will get hacked unless you
> > have all the latest security patches installed.  The last I heard, you
> > had to pay for redhatnetwork to get security updates.
> 
> We used RedHat boxen extensively at my last company as web servers, and 
> never had any problem getting hold of security patches, without signing up 
> to RHN.
> 
> Take a look at http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/errata/
> 
> Of course it helped that we were on various security mailing lists so that 
> we were getting regular updates. Redhat even provide you with details of 
> these at http://www.redhat.com/support/alerts/
> 
> I'd recommend subscribing to bugtraq.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> C.
> 
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Shak - Rob Shakir
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