Firewall Distros
Brian Kelsay
bkelsay at comcast.net
Thu Sep 25 03:21:48 CDT 2003
Kendrick-LUGS wrote:
> there is also astro? linux made for firewall i personaly dont like
That is Astaro http://www.astaro.com/ They are used in a Firewall
appliance that was recently reviewed in InfoWorld magazine.
> ipcop. had troubles with the firewall section and it didnt want to
> update properly. openbsd is pretty good I have enjoyed 2? years of good
I had update problems at first, but the 1.3.0 with fixes 1 & 2 got it
where this feature is working properly now. Part of the feature was
that a cron job would ping a certain page at ipcop.org and see if any
updates were available. This is the part that was broken.
> luck with it before the hdd it was on went belly up. didnt like trustix
Bad hardware can ruin any box and is sometimes the motivation to try a
new distro. That is why I stopped using Freesco and went to IPCop.
> to much from the get go but never spent time on it either. if you have
> had decent experiance with linux get your fav distro strip it of all but
> essental packages and build from there also there is a prog there that
IPCop does this. It is basically a stripped down RedHat 7.3 with an
updated kernel (2.4.21) and iptables running. Also a small webserver so
you can admin it from inside your LAN.
.
> is kinda like netstat but has ncurses gui think starts with s but cant
Might be shorewall you are thinking of.
> remember will look in archives for it.. helps track down naughty programs
> that want to call home to mommie... or find what port your fav game
> wants to use :)
>
> Brian Kelsay wrote:
>>
>> IPCOP.org
>> You can't go wrong. It has worked great for me.
>>
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