Mandrake Firewall

Posted by Michael Palmer on Thursday, March 27, 2003

My back hurts today.. Guess I’ve just been in front of the computer too long. In addition.. Pakistan is testing nuclear weapons today? whats with that. i hope we don’t have to regulate that now too..

In the mean time.. Mandrake Security MNF (Multi Network Firewall) is a decent program. I’d use it for home use and what not, but not in a corporate environment… unless I was Linux dumb and needed a quick solution. It makes firewall administration very easy. Has VPN support, two build in IDS packages, and a whole lot of other usual firewall junk. It ran like a bear in hibernation on my p166 test machine.. Slackware runs perfect on that machine as a firewall.. can we all say BLOAT? Well, I guess when you add usability to software it naturally becomes more bloated and slows down.. hence ALL Microsoft products.

Since I’m in an install frenzy now that I’ve got a spare machine next to me all day, I’m gonna try and check out the new Mandrake 9.0 and ill do a quick review on VectorLinux 3.2. More on that later..


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