BSD? WHy would you recomend that over Clark Connect?
On Thursday 17 January 2008 12:39 am, Mike Storke wrote:
> I'm surprised not one of you mentioned OpenBSD.
>
> Mike
>
> --- Matrix Mole <matrixm@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > 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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