[ILUG] Firewalls... linux -v- BSD

[Gareth Eason]

Lisa Muir wrote:
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> I don't know what I'm missing though... its like there's an inherent
> understanding in the BSD world that pf is front line ready and a valid
> professional solution to put into say a datacenter and I don't ever
> get a similar feeling from the linux world. How many people here run
> iptables as the front line of defence in a datacenter?

	I do. For lots of things. I also run Cisco PIX stuff, though iptables
has become so manageable and scaleable that I'm ever-so-slowly migrating
much of the Cisco protected stuff to be behind iptables based Linux systems.

	Best regards,
	-->Gar