I tried LRP but it didn't know my NICs (rtl8139) and not being
inclined to learn how to compile the support in I gave up. I also seem
to remember that it was configured to use PPP as the default connection.
Has this changed? The plus for LRP is the memory requirement and that it
will easily run on a 486 machine with nothing but a floppy. Storm
recommends 64 megs. LRP runs on way less than that with no problems.
You have to admit for the non technically inclined the GUI from
Storm Firewall is good as are the manuals. The Firewall Manual has just
about everything you need to know about home or small office networking
in a understandable and concise format. Not everyone using Linux anymore
is tearing it apart to look at it's guts and hacking it. Some of us just
use Linux because it's stable and does what we want the way we want it
to. The days of text only/CLI based installs are past us. Install
packages like Storm's are becoming the rule, even Slackware has a
graphic and some what automagic installer if you want to use it.
I was able to install a effective firewall without understanding
anything about Ipchains. The Ipmasquerade was configured by default with
no intervention from me. Pretty neat, more importantly I was able to
deploy it in about 35 min
and can change the configuration with the GUI to be more or less
restrictive any time I want in the future. There is something to be said
about a boxed set with documentation and some support. I have several
friends who port scanned the machine with crackers tools and I only had
to add 3 new rules and I was in stealth mode completely to the outside
world.
Peace
Steven
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