9/10 using: win2k wanted: good firewall pkg. recommendationsP
good defind as something you have used, and are comfortable
with and have the least amount of hatred for.
\_ I recommend ipf, you need to install a helper environment
in order to get it running, a little environment named
OpenBSD!
\_ Dork. The person wants WinRoute. --openbsd/win2k user
\_ Running a firewall using Lose2k or an MS OS
is like building a castle, but leaving the
drawbridge down, the portcullius up and the
doors open. There is no point. What he needs
is ipf, and he should be running it using
OpenBSD. For him, ipf is the app, and OpenBSD
is the lib. Yeah, installing the lib wipes
Lose2K, but that is a good thing.
\_ Paolo, shut the fuck up.
\_ I'm not Paolo, I'm #1 *BSD FAN!
\_ Hi. I really did mean 2k. I run
ipf on the other half of the machine
and no, it's not buff enough for vmware.
\_ Like if you ever used WinRoute or w2k you might
know what you're talking about. OpenBSD isn't the
answer to every question unless your toolshed only
has a hammer.
\_ Lose2K isn't the answer to any question.
In fact if M$ is the answer to any question,
you are asking the wrong question.
\_ Some of us live and work in the real world
where your religious point of view won't
fly. So what's the answer for the busdev
and sales people who want powerpoint style
presentations, excel style spreadsheets,
and exchange style calendaring? There isn't
plug in. Needless to say, they don't use the openbsd side
a better set of apps on the unix side for
these sorts of things than MS has. It's
time to leave the church and try something
secular. -unix admin
\_ You're apparently looking for something free, but numerous
colleagues of mine (mostly unix-heavy) have liked Axent Raptor
pretty well. Of course, it pretty much rips out all the Wincrap
and leaves the pretty interface. Regarding IPF, is there any
possibility you can put a dedicated OpenBSD/ipf box in front of
the Windows machine? Leaving a Windows box on an open net is
a fairly risky proposition, especially since Win2k probably
hasn't most of its security bugs exposed yet... -John
\_ rock on. thanks. this was the type of answer I was looking
for. This is a laptop. It dual boots w/ 2k. At work,
it's jacked in behind an openBSD firewall; so no problem
the issue is that this z505s is a presentation machine and
the biz team likes to take it to various locales and
plug in. Needless to say, they don't use the unix side
of the machine.
\_ What I was getting at though is that I don't know whether
you can really use Win2k as such under Raptor, since it
really claims to rip everything out, install its own "OS"
and leaves the Windows GUI. If you're using the laptop
productively, I'd recommend looking for some sort of
hardening programs that close ports and kill services.
You may want a look at http://securityfocus.com to see what you
can do manually. -John |
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