A nessus scan on my smoothwall box also comes up without any vunerabilities. Same as scans from DLSReports and grc. But does that make my smoothwall box any less secure then a generic RH 7.2 high firewall setting box? Does a RH 7.2 high firewall setting box give you intrusion detection? Can a RH 7.2 high firewall setting box be installed on a machine with only a couple hundred meg drive? Does a RH 7.2 high firewall setting box give you site to site VPN support? Can RH 7.2 high firewall setting box be monitored remotly? > Quoting Shawn Fertch (fertch at mninter.net): > > Aside from smoothwall, what other firewall would you recommend? > > Everything that I seem to be reading about Smoothwall is turning it sour. > > It's still at the 2.2 kernel, and I'd like to move up to the 2.4 kernel. > > I tried to build my own firewall, however, I lacked the time to really > > devote to a project of that tasking. > > Upgrade to Redhat 7.2, check the "high" security on the firewall configuration > page and your done. > > A nessus scan of a default 7.2 install with high security show no > vunerabilities. > > -- > Minneapolis St. Paul Twin Cities MN | Phone : (952)943-8700 > http://www.mn-linux.org Minnesota Linux | Fax : (952)943-8500 > Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9 > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >