There are many options here. Depends on what you want it to do,
really.
My suggestion, if you aren't planning on running anything special
on it would be one of the various firewall boot disks or boot cds. The
reason for this is that a hacker who breaks into a boot cd can't change
anything permanently.
If you have any disks in, it's still okay. The disks would then
just hold data. Your web server or whatever.
In order of ease of use, I'd say Mandrake to Debian to
Slackware. I prefer Slackware, but there are very few setup tool style
things. You would have to set iptables by yourself and put the ruleset
into the boot scripts. Mandrake, I'm sure, has a graphical dealy to set
up NAT.
ipchains is obsolete. iptables is the 2.4 version. ipchains
still works, but iptables encompasses much more. You have to compile
support for ipchains into 2.4, too, which may not have been done.
I would direct you to the Linux Documentation Project, but I'm not
sure where it is. Try a google search and you'll find it. Maybe
www.linux.com or linux.org.
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Rob Hudson wrote:
> I'm setting up a firewall/gateway at my house.
>
> What should I use? IPchains? What's the other option? Isn't there a
> standard packet filter for 2.2 and a different one for 2.4? I'm in the
> kernel config for 2.4.19 right now and don't see much.
>
> Pointers to articles to set it up or other info much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
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