"Ed Street"
<blacknet@simplyaquat An: "'Antony Stone'"
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04.07.2002 01:06
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Hello,
The correct choice to go with would be debian. You can do a minimal
install from a business card cd and have everything you need. For those
of you that's interested contact me off list for the details and the
script/iso file (approx 41 megs)
- a good choice
- i am working on a cd-based firewall on debian. booting from cd and
firewall rules from
- write-protect disk. no hdd is needed. if a kernelchange is needed -create
a new cd.
- if somebody hacks it reboot and hes gone!
Ed
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Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 6:34 PM
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Subject: Re: Most stable firewall distro
On Wednesday 03 July 2002 11:23 pm, riffraff wrote:
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: "Miguel Laborde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 18:22:38 -0400
>
> >Hello all,
> > I have a question here for those of you who use iptables heavily
in a
> >production environment. Right now I am about to replace a older
Mandrake
> >(release 7.2) with an updated linux firewall however before I go
ahead and
> >do that, I'm interested in knowing what you people consider the most
> > stable distribution for a linux firewall.
> > I realize that the underlying OS and iptables software is common
across
> > all distributions however some distributions apply patches which
others
> > don't, and as result might be better suitable as a firewall.
> >
> >
> > Thanks for your time,
> > Miguel
>
> I just used redhat 7.0 (I think, it's been a while), and removed
everything
> that was completely unnecessary, then compiled a whole new kernel (I
had
> to; I'm using the bridge-netfilter patch). So, it isn't much of a
redhat
> anymore, just uses redhat paths and rpm.
I agree with this approach. A firewall shouldn't really be any
recognisable
distro, because distros basically differ in all the add-ons they include
around the kernel, nearly all of which you should not have on a
firewall.
And, as suggested above, you really ought to compile your own kernel for
a
firewall, too, so it contains what you want and doesn't contain what you
don't want, therefore you start from ftp://ftp.kernel.org and 'make
config'
(or whichever variation of that you prefer).
The 'distro' I would really like to see people use for firewalls is
Linux
>From Scratch, because this is expressly designed to contain only the
tools
you choose for a specific job, and not a whole bunch that someone else
thought might come in handy one day.....
Not the easiest thing to play with though, admittedly.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org
Antony.
