On Friday 10 January 2003 12:58 am, Ken Hawkins wrote: > On Friday 10 January 2003 02:50 pm, Ken Thompson wrote: > > On Thursday 09 January 2003 08:14 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: > > > and I did take a look at gShield. The little bugger liked to drove me > > > nuts! > > > > > > Mark > > > > I grabbed an old P90 with 32MB - 540MB Drive and installed Smoothwall. > > http://www.smoothwall.org > > Now I run my entire network through it and just simply fergit it's there > > except for frequent log checks. > > I have been using EigerStein from the LRP on a 486-66 w16mb, and NO HDD for > about 2 years with no problem. Since it boots from floppy, once running, > you pop out the disk, and even if by chance someone hacks the F/W, you can > just reboot. > > I have run this against some online security test sites, and they have all > never been able to get more from my computer behind the firewall than my > browser version. It leaves a FEW things open by default, but those are > easily corrected. > > Ken Hawkins
***ALERT*** I've run coyote-linux for 5 years now and have NEVER been hacked. That is until September of 2002. I spoke with the author and he felt his system was secure and it couldn't have been his LRP based firewall that broke down. I DID have port 21 forwarded, so assumed it was the inside box that got compromised via port 21. I took the inside box off line, totally built it from scratch, hardened all boxes and made sure I had a secure intranet. I then brought the firewall back up. Within a month someone was poking around inside my intranet again. Now it seems that it takes about 48 hours for them to get back in. So I've been rebooting it every night until I can get my MNF box up. I believe there is some buffer overflow or other vulnerability that hasn't been identified yet with the LRP firewall system. So just a warning, don't trust it too much. :)
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