Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 16:24:50 -0800 From: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> To: Paul Griffith <paulg@interlog.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenBSD vs FreeBSD Message-ID: <19981201162450.C10475@best.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.96r.981201184250.8820A-100000@shell1.interlog.com>; from Paul Griffith on Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 06:48:09PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSI.3.96r.981201184250.8820A-100000@shell1.interlog.com>
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On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 06:48:09PM -0500, Paul Griffith <paulg@interlog.com> wrote: > > Can anyone pointme a URL that compares OpenBSD and FreeBSD. I am looking > at setting a IP packet filter this weekend when I get my cable modem > installed. I plan use a deny be default stance, and just allow in : FTP, > DNS, SMTP, and WWW - maybe SSH in the future. Everthing else get locked > down. > > > Paul Griffith <> paulg@interlog.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message IP packet filter in both FreeBSD 3.0 and OpenBSD would be done using the same software: IP filter written by Darren Reed. FreeBSD 2.2 also has ipfw (in addition to ipf) - ip packet filter which has been in FreeBSD for a while now. Off topic: your subject line is very inappropriate for this forum. I hope this thread will not turn into yet another flame war or some such. Do you really expect people here, on this list to say "Use OpenBSD" or "Use Linux" or etc? -- Yan I don't have the password .... + Jan Koum But the path is chainlinked .. | Spelled Jan, pronounced Yan. There. So if you've got the time .... | Web: http://www.best.com/~jkb Set the tone to sync ......... + OS: http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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