not ipcop?

[Matrix Mole]

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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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