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[ILUG] Firewall Overhead.

[ILUG] Firewall Overhead.

David Murphy drjolt+ilug at redbrick.dcu.ie
Tue Jun 27 17:43:23 IST 2000


Quoting <20000627172229.A9829 at nmrc.ie>
by Lars Hecking <lhecking at nmrc.ie>:

> 
> [OpenBSD ...]
> > FreeBSD is nearly as secure,
> 
>  Interesting claim, especially if you look at the number of *BSD Security
>  Advisories on bugtraq.
> 
> >            and can be made to be if you want. It also does _not_ crash :)
> 
>  Very likely, yes and yes :) And btw, I've had Solaris up to 90+ without
>  crashing, too, but SPARC hardware is in a different league :)

I remember the main Irish mail relay at a company I worked for passing
365 days while I was there. The next best I've seen is 300 days, on an
NT4 server.

-- 
When asked if it is true that he uses his wheelchair as a weapon he will reply:
"That's a malicious rumour. I'll run over anyone who repeats it."
Stephen Hawking - [http://www.smh.com.au/news/0001/07/features/features1.html]
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