> Can you harden a linux system as good or better than a cheap hardware > firewall, you may be able to today, someone new maybe not. Well, there's always firewall-specific distros - smoothwall and the like. I'm pretty sure a newbie could work out how to set up a hardened Linux network in less than 10 minuites with a Smoothwall CD. Ok, that's slightly cheating because it's turning an old computer into a cheap hardware firewall. Besides, I've always thought the default security with Redhat/Fedora was pretty good. Just not selecting any services to let through the local firewall in the graphical installer should be good enough.
