I was at Mandrake's site a week or two ago, they still have the firewall specific distro. They call it MNF (I think - for Multi Network Firewall). It's supposed to be able to handle complex firewall and routing jobs. Whereas some of the "floppy disk firewall" distros are relatively limited in their capabilites. I would include IPCop in that list, however IPCop is very robust and more than suitable for most small/medium businesses.
Shawn -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Cameron Nikitiuk Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 1:28 PM To: CLUG General Subject: RE: [clug-talk] Firewall Distro? If I remember correctly, Mandrake had a firewall specific version a couple versions back. I think I have a cop at home but I am not 100%. I will try and remember to check at home and let you know. If I do, I can let you know the details and burn a copy for you. I also have a few firewll distros at home from an comparison article they did on firewalls. This was only a couple issues ago, so the versions should be pretty recent. They include most of the suggestions that the other have made here. I am sure I could for the Mandrake Firewall and these other ones on a one or two CD's for u. Let me know > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Brian Horncastle > Sent: May 6, 2004 12:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [clug-talk] Firewall Distro? > > > Hi Doug, > > Debian, Slackware, or Gentoo would be my suggestion... Don't install any > packages you don't need (i.e. XWindows and the like). You just > need to set > up your network interfaces and IPTables. :-) > > If you are looking for something *easy* (but not necessarily elegant) you > could go with Red Hat / Fedora as there is a firewall wizard. > The same goes > for Mandrake, and I would imagine Suse (using YAST). > > Brian H. > > >From: Doug Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: CLUG General <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: CLUG General <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: [clug-talk] Firewall Distro? > >Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 12:27:11 -0600 > > > >Hey guys, > > > >I'm looking to use an old Dell PII350 128MB, 4.3GB as a firewall > between my > >server and shaw. Linux is supposed to be ideal for this so I thought I'd > >give it a try. > > > >Just looking for suggestions on which distro is ideal for this > purpose. I > >realize that any version of linux could be used, but I'm looking for a > >tailored/secure linux distro designed to be used as a firewall. > > > >Thanks, > > > >Doug > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >clug-talk mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > _________________________________________________________________ > STOP MORE SPAM with the MSN Premium and get 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1 034&SU=http://hotmail.com/enca&HL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
