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Re: Debian Firewall



> > I want to setup a firewall for my home LAN. I will have 5 - 10 PC's
> > behind it. It will be running on a PPro 233 w/ 80mb RAM, and 2 Intel
> > 100mb NIC's. I want a lot of features. I want a lot of features:
>
> Security - you can't be 100 per cent. Do the best you
> can and keep current with advisories.
> I've done most of what you mentioned but only used a
> 486DX with a 408 Mb hard drive and 40 meg of RAM.
> My sincere advice - avoid the snazzy GUI frontends.
> Keep it to a mean CLI set-up and you'll be grateful
> to yourself later on.

has anyone used gibraltar (www.gibraltar.at), the debian firewall, i'm having 
a go, and wondered what other people thought.

Hereward




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