From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 26 13:11:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A94016A4CE for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:11:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7C5643D1F for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:11:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from beebum@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 68so162083wri for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 06:11:55 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=Rfoewb/HaM+P+0JL6Wiwqia2MvnVjybrTq3S/4DRMW+w4BvX0syTGHOPpzrLZskmtf3jioFckA/LJPAQs5wfpkufn2LbwE7ExNvelINR28wOwuSl7xOPMAiPIZORp5c+7h8Tgo45ipaXZtMVfZeS0c4ZQAqfWzq8QhjRzZT+bvU= Received: by 10.38.65.59 with SMTP id n59mr429526rna; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 06:11:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.65.76 with HTTP; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 06:11:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 08:11:54 -0500 From: terry tyson To: Ted Mittelstaedt In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <056501c4bab1$c72d9ed0$4df24243@tsgincorporated.com> cc: tm4525@aol.com cc: questions@freebsd.org cc: Micheal Patterson cc: stefan@swebase.com Subject: Re: Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: terry tyson List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:11:56 -0000 On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 23:20:08 -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: PMFJI, (especially since I'm a newbie) but I think I understand at least some of what Ted is saying here. I set up a home firewall and later had a hardware failure. I replaced the box and decided to use Mandrake Linux for the firewall because I thought it would be easier to set up. It was easier to set up initially with all the pointy clicky stuff. Then a friend (who knows much more than I do) sniffed the box and warned me that I had holes galore. As I tried to fix the problem it became more difficult than when I was using BSD. I finally installed OpenBSD for the firewall (still use FreeBSD for everything else) and even tho there is a lot to learn I can make it do what I want. I have learned that just because something looks good on the surface, that doesn't mean that it's better. -- Terry