OT:Speaking of firewalls...

[storkus at storkus.com]

Per Shawn, I'm reposting this here hoping for more help.  And maybe I'll
get more yet if I can get up early enough (I work graveyard) to get to
the west side meeting (tonight?!?).

Thanks, Mike

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:52:58 -0700, "Shawn Badger"
<badger.shawn at gmail.com> said:
> I have used IPcop with great success in the past. I has a very easy to
> use
> web interface and only needs a light weight box to run and it comes with
> some basic services.  I would also check out the PLUG Discus list as that
> one gets a lot more traffic and they just recently had a discussion on
> firewall distros.
> 
> 
> On Jan 22, 2008 2:38 PM, <storkus at storkus.com> wrote:
> 
> > Our wireless network here at our motel is getting eaten alive by
> > non-guests.  One option was to keep the company who set it up (using a
> > Netgear router!) or try a cheaper route, namely setting it up ourselves.
> >  As I'm fairly Linux-savvy and another guy is fairly technical as well,
> > we feel we shouldn't have too much trouble.  The problem is making it so
> > that the non-technical front desk employees and owner can do it.
> >
> > 3 packages I've looked at heavily so far are ZoneCD, which I'm not sure
> > I trust, M0n0wall, and its descendant PFSense.  The latter was the first
> > I tried, but seems to be having bad issues with crashing.  I'm thinking
> > at this point it's a corrupted CD burn, but I won't know until tonight.
> >
> > One problem I have with all of these, though, is that they're all
> > live-cd's.  This is ordinarily fine, but I'd also like to run a server
> > with basic services on it as well
> > as the firewall. (Yeah, I know it's not the safest to run server daemons
> > on the same machine as a firewall, but it's not like we're a major
> > target here trying to hide something.)
> >
> > Anyway, something with a web GUI for configuring whatever low-level
> > filtering system the OS supports (I'm considering both the BSD's and
> > Linux) and captive portal is important.  Those live-cd's do it--but it
> > seems you can't get the app-level software by itself.  Do any of you
> > know where to find it? (And, of course, I'm talking about an open source
> > license here--we don't have money to burn!)
> >
> > Thanks, Mike
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