[plug] PPC firewall question

[Quintin Lette]

I have a PowerPC 7200/120 (120mhz 601e with 24 mb of ram -> currently my email 
server but I have been toying with the idea of firewall, my issue is whether 
or not I can get my Compaq WL200 wireless card to go in it ;-)

I can therefore only confirm that yes you can put a 2.4 kernel on them.

I too am running Debian 3.0r1 (stable on this machine -- the rest are sid) and 
the kernel is kernel-image-2.4.18-powerpc I got it with apt-get when the 
system was already installed.

Hope that is of some assistance

By the way does anyone know how to use the aaui port on a powermac under 
linux, that would make life so easy... 2 onboard nics (10mb RJ45 + 10mb AAUI) 
and 3 pci slots on the 7200/x series Powermacs :-)

HTH and Regards

Quintin
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 11:50 pm, Chris Caston wrote:
> I don't think I've got any replies yet.
>
> At the moment I'm just playing around sshing into the machine and
> working out ipchains.I think I'm going with seawall at least to learn
> more about it.
>
> I should also mention that the machine is 200hmz with 32mb RAM.
>
> I believe that seawall supports static NAT so will be looking into it.
>
> Anyone know if seawall protects against "loose address source routing"?
> I know this isn't going to be a Cisco Pix but I'd like to get it
> reasonably secure.
>
> regards,
>
> Chris
>
> On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 20:42, Chris Caston wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a Power Mac 7220 that I have recently used to install PPC Debian
> > 3.0r1
> >
> > For some reason I could only boot the install from BootX (under Mac OS
> > 8.5) using kernel ver 2.2. Trying to boot the install using 2.4 would
> > freeze the system.
> >
> > Now that I have the system installed nicely I am reviewing my options
> > for firewallage.
> >
> > I took a look over at shorewall
> >
> > (http://www.shorewall.net/)
> >
> > and it seems that as netfilter is built into the 2.4 kernel if I wish to
> > remain with 2.2 I should use the Seattle Firewall or Seawall (interface
> > to IPchains) (http://seawall.sourceforge.net/)
> >
> > I am very much a newbie to firewalls so will be learning in this
> > experience.
> >
> > I plan to use slap my Billion BI-PAC 711CE ADSL modem in bridged mode.
> > The Mac has two Digital 10/100 nics. One will be plugged into the ADSL
> > modem the other into my Xnet 8 port switch.
> >
> > I will also be using the PPC machine for NAT/DHCP (of course) and I may
> > also install apache at a later date.
> >
> > What do you think it the best option for a firewall?
> >
> > Should I use the Seattle Firewall (seawall) or update the 2.4 (can this
> > be done on this machine?) and use netfilter? Or suggest a better option.
> > (:
> >
> > regards,