Router/Firewall Recommendation

[Otto Haliburton]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Reuben D. Budiardja
> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 7:40 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: Router/Firewall Recommendation
> 
> On Friday 25 June 2004 01:20 am, Otto Haliburton wrote:
> <snip>
> >I'm going to sum up and then I'm going to forget this thread.  The
> problem
> > here is to get the simplest solution that solves the problem with the
> least
> > amount of effort.
> 
> No man.. NO. The problem here is to give options to the user. Read back
> the
> OP. He was wondering if using RH machine as firewall is an option, a good
> idea. He also wanted to have good logging and stuff.
> 
> Your solution so far with your "cant be hacked" LBB not only miss the
> point,
> but also does not answer the OP's question. Other people are helpful by
> giving options with experience of what they do on different situations.
> You
> are not. Just-put-a-linksys-router-that-can't -be-hack is certainly not
> helpful.
> 
> > If the user is here to learn and get to know how to
> > setup iptables and linux routers then he can take off and do the
> bullshit
> > you're spitting out.  If he wants a seamless solution that is cheap and
> > good he goes out and buys a router,
> 
> No, he wants to know his options with linux firewall. You're not giving
> any.
> And yes, users are here to learn. I'm here to learn by reading the posts,
> not
> just finding solution. If one don't care about learning, then just go to
> best
> buy or compUSa or something and pay the tech guy there to install it at
> your
> home. In my case, just by reading this threads I learn what my options are
> for putting firewall. I probably even do the "bullshit" of setting up
> linux
> firewall.
> 
> <snip>
> > trying to out do the other, but get useful info and any simple reading
> of
> > this thread will find that the only one off base is the one trying throw
> > out insults.
> By reading this thread I know that your info of a cant-be-hacked LBB is
> not
> useful at all.
> 
> 
> RDB
> --
> Reuben D. Budiardja

again we have a difference in opinion.  The guy gets into setting a linux
box up for routing and using iptables.  If he had the ability to effectively
do this he wouldn't be sending a post to this list.  By the time he spends
time learning how to do all of the things necessary to setup the linux box
and then fine tune it to do what he wanted to do, he could have been up and
running with an effective firewall in 15 min.  That is the point, you know
the K.I.S.S. principle.  I don't believe half of the people read these
threads effectively.  The topic should give you a clue and the
recommendation was to use the simplest effective method and that was to buy
a router and install it.  And if you didn't read further I will say it
again.  If you are seeking a learning experience then setup the linux box as
a router and go for it, but it is not trivial as some seem to be saying.