From owner-freebsd-security Tue Sep 28 9:49:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 608) id C20A415779; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 09:49:38 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" To: andre@sun4c.net Cc: scott@computeralt.com, freebsd-security@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <19990927181310.G24486@toaster.sun4c.net> (message from Andre Gironda on Mon, 27 Sep 1999 18:13:10 -0700) Subject: Re: Help me win the MS-Proxy/ipfw war Message-Id: <19990928164938.C20A415779@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 09:49:38 -0700 (PDT) Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > So, tell them that they can use MS-Proxy as long as you buy a $14k > PIX and block all incoming connections (especially to Netbios and IIS). > Present that as Option 1. Option 2 could be FreeBSD with ipfw. You > can put other options in there as well. Present it as a paper for > immediate review. If they don't understand, then your paper will > cleary state and document that fact -- so when you do get attacked > (and believe me, you will get attacked), you have some sort of paper > trail and migration plan. if they still cant understand, buy the PIX, remove the flash-style harddisk card, put the picoBSD version of FreeBSD on a floppy and use ipfw. using it here that way ;) jmb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message