[plug] firewalls on 486

[Mark Nold]

I suppose the next question is "How do you test your Firewall?" i know this is
a bit of a moving target, and short of getting a cracker to have a go at it...
is there a decent checklist of things to confirm a decent firewall/secure
setup?







Mark Nold
markn at enspace.com
Senior Consultant

Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.




On Thursday, 31 May 2001 9:09, Simon Scott [SMTP:simon.scott at flexiplan.com] 
wrote:
> 	welcome to the power of linux :)
>
> 	I love success stories, and happy campers :)
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> 	From:	mickey <gards1 at iinet.net.au> on 30-05-2001 05:29 PM
> 	Please respond to plug at plug.linux.org.au@SMTP at Exchange
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> 	Subject:	Re: [plug] firewalls on 486
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> 	Gavin Corfield wrote:
> 	I personally just installed SmoothWall on my old 486 (after reading
> of
> 	its existence here on the PLUG mailing list), and I'd have to say,
> as a
> 	firewall, its brilliant. The install was a breeze (download a tiny
> 23meg
> 	.iso CD Image and burn it, (or mount it via loopback i guess) ), and
>
> 	detected my big old 3Com Etherlink III no worries. The distribution
> 	includes easy to use masquerading, firewalling, most other -ing
> you'd
> 	want really, and best of all can be accessed via web browser (it
> runs
> 	its own httpd), because you dont really want to bother with a
> monitor
> 	and the whole shazam. You can probably get smaller more efficient
> server
> 	(there distributions that fit on one or two floppies for example),
> but
> 	for my 486 (8megs of RAM, 210meg HDD) it seems perfect.
>
> 	A formidable task, bah! to that. :), any dummy can do it (especially
> if
> 	I managed).
>
> 	http://www.smoothwall.net
>
> 	for the .iso image as well as easy to understand documentation (PDF
> format).
>
> 	Good luck, (but you wont need it).
>
> 	Mikey.
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> 	> Hi all,
> 	>
> 	> Thanks for views on email clients.  I'm looking at setting up a
> firewall
> 	> on a 486 box.  Being a 486 I'm told I dont have pci slots but can
> get
> 	> older NIC's.
> 	>
> 	> I appreciate that I have given no details but I want to have an
> idea of
> 	> how formidable a task setting this system up is likely to be.
> 	>
> 	> gavin
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