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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