[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> ipfwadm is the firewalling tool for Linux.
ipfwadm has not been the firewalling tool for Linux since kernel 2.2 came out
- just after RHL 5.2.
> As for my opinion, again, if you are using this for a desktop
> workstation, forget it. A firewall should be a machine that has *ONLY*
> the firewall running on it, doing port forwarding and/or ip
> masquerading to handle inbound and outbound services.
> If you want to be secure, go find the cheapest motherboard you can
> that can boot of a cdrom, a cheap case, and a decent power supply.
> Then get a cheap cdrom. Stick about 64 meg of ram in it, and set up a
> bootable cdrom to load a ram disk with the ipfw stuff.
There's a bootable floppy that provides a firewall. I've not looked at it, but
I gather it requires no other disk space.
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