firewall distros

[George Toft]

Chiming in with yet another distro . . .

I've been using smoothwall (http://smoothwall.org).  It's  commercially 
developed, has a huge user community that develops hacks to make it do 
more things than the developers planned, and is very well documented. 
It uses a mix of curses and web interfaces - curses to do basic 
configurations (NICs, IP's, etc) and web pages to tune the features.

The ones I build have DNS caching, squid/transparent web proxying, Dan's 
Guardian content filtering, anti-virus download scans, VPN endpoint, and 
DMZ capabilities.  I also customized the "banned" page that is presented 
when a violation occurs.

I also put them on 1GB CompactFlash cards and take out the hard drive.

George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
623-203-1760




Jeremy Miller wrote:
> I am getting ready to turn the P3 under my desk into a
> firewall/router. There are many distros like that available and I
> wanted to know if anyone could recomend something. My only
> requirements are that it can assign IP addresses based on mac
> addresses (I think this is available with dnsmasq), have dns cacheing
> built in, and have some kind of interface (web prefered but ncurses or
> similar is OK). Nothing against BSD but I would prefer a Linux based
> distro only because I am farmiliar with it.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
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