Re: Which machine to firewall with?
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 13:26:00 -0500 (Central Daylight Time),
"Gerald V. Livingston II" <debuser@sysmatrix.net> wrote in message
<[🔎] 200310131354656.SM00936@phorce1-xp.mshome.net>:
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> 2. Athlon XP2000 w/1G RAM (DDR 2100) -- Currently (and will stay)
..riiiiiiiiiiiiight. ;-)
> WinXP Pro. Used for work, carried between work and home as needed.
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> 5. AMD K6/2-333 - PC133 RAM 256 - 512 available (not yet built)
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> I think the K6/2-333 with a small hard drive (3G) will be perfect for
> firewall/router duties. Feeding out to a single port that goes to
> wherevr I decide to install the patch panel and a couple of
> switches/hubs. I have a 5 port and an 8 port that should stack nicely,
> giving me 11 available ports.
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> Debian Stable on the 333 with firewall/router running.
..your _next_ step. Shorewall plus webmin, if you're a newbie.
..rip out any ipchains and any 2.2 kernels, you need 2.4 and iptables.
Basta!: Boot bf2.4 and do the base install, then 'apt-get remove \
--purge ipchains linux-2.2.* ; apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade ; \
apt-get install webmin shorewall '. Then fire up webmin, and
update that from within webmin, that'll take it from 0.94 to 1.110 and
give you a nice web gui for shorewall. Until then, use ipcop.
> So, I know NOTHING about firewall building. I've seen various firewall
> builder software mentioned in the archives. What do you all think
> would be best for a headless system that I'll be accessing by ssh? Is
> there something out there with a decent web based interface that I
> could set up?
>
> Ideas? Opinions?
..for now, put ipcop-1.3.0 in your amd k6-2/333 for now, quickest
solution to set up. I run an ipcop-1.4.0alpha1 on an old P90 with
96MB ram on a 1.7GB disk, this gets me online thru a 802.11 radio
link. http://ipcop.org/
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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
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best case, worst case, and just in case.
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