On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 22:40 +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > 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. [... snipped ...] > 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?
How about OpenBSD? > I prefer the Linux solution because then I can run other services on > this machine (small mail server, nagios, etc..) If I were in your shoes, I'd prefer to run the firewall on a separate machine, and rig the other machine/s (which runs the other services) against the consequences of a break into the firewall machine. --- Omer -- PHP - the language of the Vogons. My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
