[NTLUG:Discuss] Cd based Proxy/Firewall (again)

[severian@pobox.com]

Howdy,
   I suggest you look at www.smothwall.org and www.ipcop.org   Ipcop is a 
fork of Smoothwall that has been updated(and Smoothwal has evolved since 
the fork, as well).  I built a new firewall.router/etc with ipcop last 
week,  I can't say IPcop is really better than smoothwall.  I switched 
after running Smoothwall for a year and a half just because I wanted to try 
the competition.  It took about 20 minutes and everything was 
running.  That is a lot faster than installing a full distro like 
RedHat.  You don't want a lot of the stuff installed with a big 
distribution, anyway.  If you decide you need more than IPcop or smoothwall 
gets you, look at Mandrake.  There is an install option for a firewall 
server.  I installed Mandrake, RedHat, and Suse, FreeBSD and a couple 
others 2 months ago as a test.  Mandrake was the one that could create the 
simplest working firewall server without doing anything more than selecting 
installation options.
Good luck,
Ralph


In response to the welcome remarks of Paul Drew at 04:46 PM 7/11/03 -0500:
>soooo sorry to bring this up again, but I want to be smart with this. The 
>execs' are pushing for just RedHat, but I think we can be smarter than 
>that. Especialy after we were at the bad end of a root kit recently. 
>Thanks again, have a great day, and take care.
>
>Paul Drew