Firewalling as an introductory Linux topic

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Author: Alan Dayley
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Subject: Firewalling as an introductory Linux topic
Other "e-Smith"-ish firewall distros that are easy to use:

IPCop: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipcop
Smoothwall: http://www.smoothwall.org

I currently use Smoothwall on a 100MHz 486 box with 32MB of ram and a 170MB
hard drive. I will be switching to something else for non-technical reasons,
probably to IPCop. Easy to setup, easy to admin in your web browser.

Alan

On Saturday 04 May 2002 06:29 am, you wrote:
> One of the really nice things about using the e-Smith as a firewall is you
> do not need to know all this to set it up. Simply insert and boot from the
> CD. Only a few set up questions like verifying the NIC's that are found
> and the rest is done automatically. When I tested it at some of the sites
> that test security it came back very secure.
>
> Tom