On 01/20/04 13:34:31, Ian Truelsen wrote:
I have been thinking about having my firewall box boot and run from a CD so that there are no writable filesystems and there should be no need to even have a HD. Can this be done with Gentoo or do I have to look at one of the smaller distros? Also, does this seem like a good idea?
This is a great idea - there are a few solutions available that you should look at first before you go reinventing the wheel.
Gibraltar[1] - Debian based, web-gui in the pay version, freeware version ClosedBSD[2] - FreeBSD based, ncurses GUI, free, floppy or CD Sentry Firewall[3] - Linux based, Firewall, IDS, CLI tools & webmin
You can probably find a bunch more on distrowatch.com
[1] - http://www.gibraltar.at [2] - http://www.closedbsd.org [3] - http://www.sentryfirewall.com -- Thanks, Thomas Achtemichuk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
While you don't greatly need the outside world, it's still very reassuring to know that it's still there.
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