Firewall Distros

[Brian Kelsay]

Kendrick-LUGS wrote:

> there is also astro? linux made for firewall i personaly dont like 
That is Astaro http://www.astaro.com/  They are used in a Firewall 
appliance that was recently reviewed in InfoWorld magazine.
> ipcop.  had troubles with the firewall section and it didnt want to 
> update properly.  openbsd is pretty good I have enjoyed 2? years of good 
I had update problems at first, but the 1.3.0 with fixes 1 & 2 got it 
where this feature is working properly now.  Part of the feature was 
that a cron job would ping a certain page at ipcop.org and see if any 
updates were available.  This is the part that was broken.
> luck with it before the hdd it was on went belly up.  didnt like trustix 
Bad hardware can ruin any box and is sometimes the motivation to try a 
new distro.  That is why I stopped using Freesco and went to IPCop.
> to much from the get go but never spent time on it either.  if you have 
> had decent experiance with linux get your fav distro strip it of all but 
> essental packages and build from there   also there is a prog there that 
IPCop does this.  It is basically a stripped down RedHat 7.3 with an 
updated kernel (2.4.21) and iptables running.  Also a small webserver so 
you can admin it from inside your LAN.
.
> is kinda like netstat but has ncurses gui think starts with s but cant 
Might be shorewall you are thinking of.
> remember will look in archives for it.. helps track down naughty programs 
> that want to call home to mommie... or find what port your fav game 
> wants to use :)
> 
> Brian Kelsay wrote:

>>
>> IPCOP.org
>> You can't go wrong.  It has worked great for me.
>>

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