Hi people, As I setup my VPS/dedicated hosting here in Israel, I have been asked by the hosting company (Netvision) to either buy and bring a firewall or rent from them since the bandwidth I bought exceeds what is allowed under their firewall. They're offering Cisco 1383 (or 1838, I don't remember exactly which model).
As a person who really loves Linux, I thought to myself: Why do I need to buy/rent some proprietary Cisco solution? Can't Linux handle the firewall task well? I'm sure Cisco/Checkpoint solutions are great, but yet... So here's my question: If you were in my shoes, would you take a cisco or apply some Linux solution? If you say Linux solution, what kind of solution? Could you name an app/module/whatever that can do a good protection against the usual suspect and protect against stuff like DDoS attack? I prefer the Linux solution because then I can run other services on this machine (small mail server, nagios, etc..) Suggestions? Thanks, Hetz -- my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org Skype: heunique MSN: hetz-b...@benhamo.org
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