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Re: newbie gateway question

Hans du Plooy wrote:


On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 21:44 -0700, David Christensen wrote:

Rather than "roll your own", you could use one of the purpose-built firewall/
router Linux distributions.  (Such may also exist for (Free|Net|Open)BSD.)
I've used both IpCop and Smoothwall; both support various kinds of WAN links,
including USB modems:

   http://www.ipcop.org/

   http://smoothwall.org/


Endian Firewall http://www.efw.it/ is another one based on IP-COP (like
smoothwall).  It has a number of features that neither IP-COP or
Smoothwall has, like proxies for mail, sip, ftp (iirc), scanning for
virus/spyware on the web proxy, mailscanning, and a few others.  Most of
these are available as IP-COP addons, but the problem is, at least in my
experience, that most of these addons break when you run the IP-COP
updates.

http://www.closedbsd.org/
Based on OpenBSD - haven't tried it but it looks nice.

Hans
Is ipcop still in development? I well remember the birth of the ipcop project - a direct result of all the sordid, nasty goings on in the smoothwall community. After the clinically insane Richard Morrell left smoothwall I thought there would be little point in continuing with ipcop, which at that time was in its infancy and still largely built on smoothwall code.
Now you show me closedbsd which looks better still. I've sometimes wondered why no one has built a twin NIC firewall based on openbsd, who's entire reason for being seems to be stonewall security.
In the UK this type of firewall solution is ideal to sit behind cable modems which tend to be administered by the ISPs, as opposed to DSL circuits for which there are an endless supply of combined modem/router/firewall units available.
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