[Cialug] firewall distros

[Mark Hesseltine]

I know it isn't strictly Linux based, but Monowall, based on BSD works
pretty well at my office. I'm running it from a CDROM and a floppy,
but you can install it to an IDE flash drive as well.

More information available at:

http://m0n0.ch/wall

On 5/31/06, David Champion <dchampion at visionary.com> wrote:
> I'm looking at updating a dedicated linux firewall box, and was curious
> what people were using.
>
> We've gone from a Coyote LRP system to a general purpose OS (currently
> Mandriva). We've never had a problem with the firewall box per se... but
>   would like it to be as secure as possible, and easy to use - some kind
> of gui/curses or html interface would be nice. The current system is
> using an iptables script, which isn't terrible to update, but not always
> the most user friendly.
>
> Do any of them have the Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator included? The author
> of that did a presentation to the LUG a while back... it looked pretty
> slick - http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/
>
> I've been doing some looking at distrowatch.com in the firewall distro
> category, but haven't decided on one yet.
>
> -dc
>
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