[lug] Firewalls Books

[Calvin Dodge]

Michael Deck wrote:
> 
> 20% of security. Two books appear as recent titles,
> 
> Linux Firewalls  by Robert Ziegler (New Rider, 11/99), and
> Building Linux and Openbsd Firewalls; by Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates
> (Wiley, 2/00)
> 
> Any suggestions on which of these might be better for me? If it makes any
> difference, I'm running RH5.2 on the firewall right now but plan to upgrade
> to KRUD6.0 (which runs my file server already) Real Soon Now.

According to a review which I saw recently, the "Linux and Openbsd" book is by
far the better one (although it did grouse about the book being quite
RedHat-specific).

Of course, I bought the other book some time ago.  Sigh ...

Calvin

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Calvin Dodge
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