On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 01:27:24PM -0500, Rodney Ray wrote: > I just got a cable modem with ATT and was wondering what people have > for firewall and router. I don't know much about this area so any help > would be good..... Is it ok to run both functions on the same box or > is it better to separate them? What is the best method of attack? I chose to put OpenBSD on a box to use as a firewall. Writing firewall rules in OpenBSD (or anything that uses ipf) has to be the easiest of all systems. Then again, the last Linux firewall I looked at was ipchains *shiver*. Nate