Mandrake firewall

[Antoine S]

What do you think about Mandrake Security, to use Linux Mandrake as a
firewall. ?????

Thanks.

[Ørjan Sandland]

"Antoine S" <as...@wokup.com> wrote in message
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> What do you think about Mandrake Security, to use Linux Mandrake as a
> firewall. ?????

I tried it and threw it out. I have heard about people that are more than
satisfied though.
My problem (also happened at a customer site), was that after a month of
operation, the bastille part of the firewall decided not to work.
If there's anything I want in a firewall - it's stabillity!!

Mandrake has alot of support for stuff other firewalls doesn't though, so if
you are not dependant on 24/7 operation, or make it work properly - I'd give
it a go.
Nice admin interface and simple setup.

Best regards,
Ørjan Sandland

[Jason]

I'm at around 3 months with it and it works fine. And compared to some of
the others firewalls along this lines it has very low hardware requirements.

Jason

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[Carsten Gerhardt]

"Antoine S" <as...@wokup.com> wrote

> What do you think about Mandrake Security, to use Linux Mandrake as a
> firewall. ?????

I just gave it a try. I'm not very happy with it as a firewall, but my
next workstation-installation will be Mandrake.
For settetng up a Firewall, there are to many packages and programes
installed. On a firewall you just install the progames you really need
and nothing more. In the next days (-: I hope :-) I'll remove Mandrake
and go back to Slackware.

Carsten

[Florin]

"Carsten Gerhardt" <carsten....@ppi.de> writes:

one could choose to install mandrake in expert mode and select only the
needed packages.
--
Florin http://www.mandrakesoft.com