[ale] Linux versus OpenBSD for enterprise firewalls

Mike Harrison meuon at geeklabs.com
Wed Nov 9 13:48:48 EST 2005


> we're considering, Linux/iptables and OpenBSD/pf keep coming up. Any

>From what I have seen and played with the OpenBSD world might be just a 
smidgen better at the firewalling thing.. but I use Linux cause that's 
where my skills and experience is. I'd say given a good Linux sysadmin vs 
a good OpenBSD sysadmin the winner will be the better SysAdmin and his/her 
configuration and monitoring skills more than the underlying OS.






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