Linus as firewall (was:setting up a VPN from scratch)

[Jonathan Hutchins]

Quoting Charles Steinkuehler <charles at steinkuehler.net>:

> Seriously though, the best reason for using something like linux to
> do firewalling/VPN is the flexability.  If you don't need the
> flexability, it's really hard to go wrong with the black-box 
> firewall products available now...

The problem I've got with Linux as a firewall is that nobody's updating 
the application-specific modules (Quicktime) for the 2.4 Kernels.  
THe "black boxes" on the other hand either allow you to 
temporarily "dmz" a box or have modules for most popular apps.

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