[plug] Firewall question

[gavan at iinet.net.au]

Quoting Steve Baker <steve at iinet.net.au>:
> I've recently installed IPCop (which is a fork from Smoothwall) at a 
> couple of our remote offices, and it only supports 1 red interface - 
> however you can add blue and orange interfaces.  Orange is usually for a 
> DMZ and blue is meant for a wireless network if you want it on a 
> different segment to the green interface.  You can define how traffic is 
> allowed to flow between the different interfaces.  Have a go, and see if 
> it handles things the way you want.
> 
> Depending on your exact requirements, this may be adequate, or you may 
> want to load another distro and set up your own firewall rules to run 
> exactly the way you want.
> 
> I've had my first experience of shorewall recently and it is quite 
> powerful without requiring intricate knowledge of a bunch of iptables 
> commands/switches.
> 
> Regards,
> Steve
>
I think in the end I will probably just end up seting up a 2nd smoothwall box
for the 2nd adsl connection (need VPNs set up on each connection to remote
offices), and will just have to figure out how to handle routing manually. 
Thanks all for the replies.

Gavan Blunt.