RE: Creating a hardware Firewall
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Clymer
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 12:41 PM
>
>
> On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 11:49, Bojan Baros wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > I am looking into creating a firewall for my home network. So far I
> > have a simple Internet router (Netgear) that protects my win and deb
> > boxes, but I would like to replace it with something more
> substantial.
> >
> > My requirements are:
> > - CD or Floppy bootable
> > - Ease of configuration (no time to play around with IP Tables, and
> > various settings), hopefully browser based
> > - If possible, to run on an old Sparc box (even though I could find
> > an x86 box if necessary)
> > - Support for IPv6 (sparked by Comcast + v6 thread)
> > - NAT, DHCP required
> >
> > Well, after searching, I narrowed my choices to freesco (
> > http://www.freesco.org ) and LEAF ( http://leaf.sf.net ).
> Obviously,
> > there might be some more that I am unaware off.
> >
> > What do you guys think?
>
> You could look into Debian + shorewall. You would still have to play
> around with some config files, but they are pretty easy to understand
> and the iptables stuff can stay hidden from you if you dont feel like
> fooling with it.
>
> -davidc
>
>
maybe something like adamantix?...
http://www.adamantix.org/
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