[plug] Firewall Distros

[Mark B]

if it aint broken don't fix it

----- Original Message -----
From: "J Michael Gilks" <mike.gilks at westnet.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.org.au>
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 5:53 PM
Subject: [plug] Firewall Distros


> 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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