I'm surprised not one of you mentioned OpenBSD.

Mike

--- Matrix Mole <matrixm@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Michael Havens wrote:
> | so which do you all recomend?
> |>> I do appologize for not being specific enough. I mean as a
> dedicated
> |>> firewall. I was looking at the distrowatch you pasted for me and
> it
> seems
> |>> as if ipcop is the only one I know anything about; however, I was
> |>> intrigued with Devil-Linux
> |>> (http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=devil)
> |>> (http://www.devil-linux.org/home/index.php). Does anyone have any
> |>> experience with this?
> |> IPCop is very good.  I don't have experience with Devil-Linux.
> 
> I personally don't have any experience with a specific
> Firewall/router
> Linux distro, but here's a few options:
> 
> eBox - http://www.ebox-platform.com/
> Gibraltar - http://www.gibraltar.at/
> ClarkConnect - http://www.clarkconnect.com/
> Coyote Linux - http://coyotelinux.com/
> Devil Linux - http://www.devil-linux.org/home/index.php (already
> mentioned)
> ipcop - http://www.ipcop.org/ (also already mentioned)
> Sentry Firewall CD - http://www.sentryfirewall.com/
> Smoothwall - http://www.smoothwall.org/
> Endian - http://www.endian.com/
> FreeSco the Single Floppy firewall/router unit -
> http://www.freesco.org/
> ZeroShell - http://www.zeroshell.net/eng/
> 
> Although each of those distros appears to be designed specifically
> around the idea of firewall and/or router functionality, any linux
> box
> with iptables support compiled into the kernel could function as a
> proper firewall. I have a gentoo box operating as my router/firewall
> unit at the moment. If you want to add IDS support, then snort would
> be
> an excellent addition to the mix. I looked into Smoothwall briefly
> but
> never managed to get it working, although I think that's partially
> because I wasn't really interested in the project at the time.
> 
> Hope that provides you some help.
> 
> Matrix Mole
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