From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 17 15:44:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pilchuck.reedmedia.net (pilchuck.reedmedia.net [209.166.74.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73EB537B400 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 15:44:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from reed by pilchuck.reedmedia.net with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16RMCU-00035H-00; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 15:44:06 -0800 Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 15:44:06 -0800 (PST) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A CDROM based firewall----Which Os do i use? In-Reply-To: <200201172324.SAA04174@uce55.uchaswv.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Nathan Mace wrote: > for those of you interested, what OS do you recommend as a good starting > point for a bootable, CDROM based firewall. seeing as how this is > freebsd-chat the obvious choice would be Freebsd. However seeing as a > firewall needs to be secure as possible, wouldn't Openbsd make better sense? Of course, FreeBSD also strives for doing things right. (Are you saying that FreeBSD can't or isn't secure as possible?) > or would distributing it as a ISO image violate Theo's copyright? If your chose to base it on OpenBSD and you developed your own layout and ISO image, then it would be different. (The FAQ says that only his CD layout is copyrighted. Your unofficial layout is okay.) > also there is NetBSD. it would be nice for this project to support anything > with a cpu and cdrom. Well it would be interesting to have a single CD that would boot a ready to run firewall on several architectures. But I don't think that is really needed. > what do you guys think? freebsd rocks, but sometimes there are other choices > that make more sense. By the way, there are several CD-based firewalls (some proprietary and some open source) for all three BSDs. Jeremy C. Reed http://www.reedmedia.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message