try www.trinux.org
quoth the trinux homepage:
"Trinux is a portable Linux distribution that boots from a single floppy
disk, loads it packages from a FAT/Ext2 partition, floppy disks, or
HTTP/FTP servers, and runs entirely in RAM. Trinux contains precompiled
versions versions of popular Open Source network security/monitoring tools
such as nmap, tcpdump, iptraf, and ntop. Trinux default configuration
provides DHCP for easy network configuration."
also links to other mini-unix' on their page:
http://www.opensec.net/trinux/related.html#mini
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Norman, Alexandre wrote:
> You can have a look a the Linux Router project (http://www.linuxrouter.org/) which
>gave
> an idea of what you can do which what kind of computer... but it's for routing
>purpose
> only... not for firewalling.
> >
> > PCWeek just had a decent article about security. A firewall machine should be
> > spec'd depending on the amount of traffic. Firewalls inspect each packet and
> > apply the inspection to a ruleset. If you have a lot of traffic, that could
> > quickly bog down a machine.
> >
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > We need a firewall (Free Software) for our network,
> > which looks a bit like the below sketch.
> >
> > ^
> > | Presently 64 KB line expected to be upgraded
> > ^ later
> > |
> > Router
> > Cisco 1605
> > | |
> > [Socks5] ------------Internal Network
> > On Linux/OpenBSD
> > |
> > |
> > | DMZ
> > ---------------------------------------
> > | | |
> > [4 Mail Server] [3 WEB Server] [DNS Servers]
> > Linux/qmail 1 NT /2 Linux BSDI
> >
> > Our Problem is at the moment,
> > how much computer power will we require for the Firewall machine
> >
> > Recomended Ram, Processor speed, etc.
> >
> > We presently have a Pentium 133 with 32MB Ram.
> > 2 Pci 10Mbps Lan cards
> > But we do not want it to behave as a bottle neck to our network
> >
> > Please recomend us any sites where we can learn more.
> >
> > Jacob
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