Go with a dedicated firewall distro like pfSense
CentOS can certainly do it, but why bother?
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Hi All,
I have a home business circuit and I am gearing up to host my business
affairs in my place. I have Comcast and 13 static IP's.
I have an extra PIII 1U, 2 9gb SCSI, 1gb RAMm dual NICS.
So I am wanting to build a firewall to front end my traffic. Assign
one of my statics to it and
ML wrote:
I used to work with PIX 525's so I have knowledge, I just dont quite
know how to do this with CentOS and such.
Can anyone offer advice?
Nothing against CentOS, but if this is going to be a dedicated firewall,
have you thought of using an appliance type OS/application?
I've
You don't need to have Comcast route all traffic to that IP. You just
need to put two NICs in the server and place it between Comcast and
your servers. Then using iptables you can configure CentOS to deny /
allow traffic to IPs on specific ports. I know this is a CentOS list,
but if you want
Not that it's incredibly difficult to do by hand, but it is a complex
undertaking fraught with some risk in doing it wrong. I believe you'd
be much better served looking at some of the firewall applications out
there, such as IPCop or Smoothwall. Another one to look at is Shorewall
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Max Hetrick maxhetr...@verizon.net wrote:
ML wrote:
I used to work with PIX 525's so I have knowledge, I just dont quite
know how to do this with CentOS and such.
Can anyone offer advice?
Nothing against CentOS, but if this is going to be a dedicated
ML wrote:
Can anyone offer advice?
pfSense.
can even boot it off a CD and use a USB flash stick for configuration
storage so you don't need a hard drive. or boot it off a 128MB CF
card. doesn't need a display after initial setup (actually, can even be
configured with a serial terminal
On Thursday 01 October 2009 16:56, ML wrote:
I have a home business circuit and I am gearing up to host my business
affairs in my place. I have Comcast and 13 static IP's.
I have an extra PIII 1U, 2 9gb SCSI, 1gb RAMm dual NICS.
If you can, I would place a 3rd NIC into this device and use
On 1 Oct 2009, at 21:56, ML wrote:
So I am wanting to build a firewall to front end my traffic. Assign
one of my statics to it and have Comcast statically route my traffic
to this IP.
You don't need to do this. You can run all the IPs on the firewall
box, and route them to machines on a
Hi All,
I've also looked at Vyatta, and heard good things about pfsense.
Some have also recommended IPcop or pfsense.
Has anyone used Untangle? http://www.untangle.com/
What are the differences between these...
-ML
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ML wrote:
I used to work with PIX 525's so I have knowledge, I just dont quite
know how to do this with CentOS and such.
Firewall Builder.
http://www.fwbuilder.org/
But if you've configured the PIX in command-line mode, iptables is not
that hard. You could setup a local firewall right on
If you want a simple packet filtering firewall then CentOS or one of
the purpose built linux firewall distro's will suit you well. If you
want more then just packet filtering, there are better options.
You haven't mentioned what sort of business applications you are
running. How vital to your
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