Certification for a Linux firewall

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On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 08:39:19 -0800, John Bailo

If it's running BSD, it should not be crashing like that; I'd suspect the unit is faulty, frankly. If anything, BSD should average at least as good reliability as Linux.

However, you've run across a pet peeve of mine - certifications. Frankly, in IT, they seem to be meaningless. Like I'll certify my firewall setup to prevent 100% of all intrusions, guaranteed - I simply unplug your network cable. Yes, well. The certification is correct; just meaningless.

Also, many of them buttume a specific configuration or environment, which have little relevance to any given user's situation; another point making them irrelevant.

Give me something simple, clean and flexible, easily configured, and I'll be happy. Don't give me certifications that don't mean anything, I don't care. Gah.

As to Linux, yes, it's often used as a firewall and-or router. Certifications? Dunno. I do know it works. For a reasonably straightforward and relatively effective baseline setup, you can use something like Guarddog and Guidedog, Bastille, etc, which will walk you through the setup and provide a reasonably usable initial setup, which can be tweaked with relative ease after that.