[plug] firewall software

[garry]

The hw should easily cope with firewall duties.. With smoothwall certainly,  
and most prob with esmith. Would recomend these two for ease of maintainance 
as they have browser based admin. Not used esmith, but been meaning to have a 
look for interest. Think it is more of an all in one office server than 
simply a firewall though. Maybe less secure for this??

If you want to roll your own and learn heaps more about linux and admin, do a 
debian box.. Makes it dead simple to keep up to date once it is set up. But 
then you won't get the simple browser interface, and you'll need to learn 
vi/emacs or similar, and config files.. 

You could even play with a floppy disk firewall if that is your want.

Choices.

HTH

Garry.

On Friday 28 December 2001 07:04 am, Wayne Vovil wrote:
> Hi
>
> I initially decided to use Smoothwall 0.98(?) then received 0.99 and was
> going to set this up over Xmas. Like almost everything over Xmas, it didn't
> get done (except for eating, drinking and being Merry).
>
> Going through some cds last night I noticed that I also have e-smith and a
> stripped down Mandrake 8.0, which is used for firewalls.
>
> I plan to use a P90, 40MB, 1GB HDD, CD-ROM machine for this purpose (also
> has 2 * 3.5 fdd, 1 * 5.25 fdd etc.
>
> Anyone not too exhausted from Xmas to comment?
>
> Burp!
>
> Wayne
>
>
>
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