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.
If you want to finish the job in an hour, get Coyote Linux. It's a single-floppy boot disk that has everything preconfigured. You configure the system before you make the floppy. If you want to roll your own, or if you don't have a floppy drive, (-: then iptables is your module for 2.4 kernels, and ipchains is for 2.2, and ipfw (I think) is for 2.0. AFAIK, 2.5/2.6/3.0 will break the chain by not rewriting the packet filter. I have installed Gibraltar and played with it briefly, but it was a while ago. IIRC, it requires a hard disk and has a squid proxy and some other stuff. Also check out Smoothwall and Astaro Security Linux. But Coyote will waste the fewest hours of your life. -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
