[Cialug] firewall distros

[Jeff Davis]

I'll second m0n0wall.  Although you don't get the Arbitrator functionality,
You do get a decent GUI, but there's not much customization available
since it's basically burn the ISO and slap it in the drive.

-Jeff Davis


On 5/31/06, Mark Hesseltine <markhesseltine at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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