[plug] Firewall Distros

[Kev]

If firewalling is all you want it for, what's wrong with 2.4?

J Michael Gilks wrote:
> Had a bit of an embarrassing revelation today while auditing my home network.
> The file, print, dns, dhcp server is an 800MHz P3 and my firewall is a 1.8GHz 
> P4.
> Time to change this I think.
> I have been running Smoothwall for quite a while as my firewall but thought I 
> might look around for something more modern in the firewall distro 
> department. 2.4 kernels are so last century.
> So really, does anyone know of an easy to configure and administer distro like 
> Smoothwall or IPCop which uses a 2.6 kernel.
> My Googling didn't turn up much that was helpful. I find Google searches an 
> arcane art sometimes. Either 10,000,000 pages of cruft or nothing at all.
> A good tutorial on how to use a base distro, remove the cruft and get some 
> easy easy admin going would also be helpful.
> 
> Any suggestions very welcome.
> 
> Love
> Mike.
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