Re: Building Debian firewall
About re-inventing the wheel. The wheel of the single-floppy-router has been
invented many times. Here's one I've had good experiences with:
How does setting up a router in 5 to 10 minutes sound? Use an old 486 with a
floppy disk and two NICs and at least 8 MBs of RAM and go!; try
www.freesco.org
Works fine as a NAT router with ppp and one NIC or with two NICs, optional
other features like DHCP or bridging, etc.
It's not a firewall, but hey; isn't that the next stop for the packets on
their way into your network? I've had some good experiences with it for a
router solution in a small home-network (student houses) but also in larger
networks (up to some 30 PC's).
Greetz,
Mythiq.
----- Original Message -----
From: Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>
To: <debian-firewall@lists.debian.org>
Cc: <debian-firewall@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: Building Debian firewall
> On Mon, 28 May 2001, Ray Olszewski wrote:
>
> > Befoer you do too much reinventing of the wheel, you might want to look
more
> > closely at some of the existing "small Linux" distributions that are
geared
> > to floppy-based routers/firewalls. The Debian-derived ones I know of
are:
> I know these distributions and will have a look at them, if time comes.
>
> > Though derived from Debian (Slink), they now depart from it quite a bit,
> > mainly for these reasons:
> >
> > the Debian packaging standards require inclusion of a lot
> > of stuff inappropriate to floppy-based systems
> > (e.g., man pages and other documentation)
> > the Debian base relies on apps that are unsuited for
> > single-purpose, one-floppy quasi-embedded
> > systems (e.g., Perl)
> To make it clear: I really don't want to build a new Debian based
> distribution. I'm interested in a set of scripts which build a floppy
disk
> image using some configuration files (for DSL, ISDN, PPP or what else)
which
> is ready to run as router. For sure this disk image has no man pages or
> perl and this stuff.
>
<<snip>>
if there is a gain from
> > piggybacking this onto the stock Debian distribution system or not.
> I have to admit that I havn't dealt with this subject before but if I
would
> have time I would go the way I wanted to describe.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Andreas.
>
>
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