Re: Low RAM -- Security Appliance distros ...

[thebs413 at earthlink.net (Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx>)]

From: User Lists <clopmz@xxxxxxxxx>
> Thak you for your responses.
> I will use CentOS-3 as a firewall..

Nothing against CentOS as a firewall, but you might
consider a distro that is more focused as a plop'n drop
"security applicance" distro:  
  http://www.ipcop.org  

4-zone segmentation (WAN, DMZ, LAN, WLAN)
Integrated real-time and statistical logging, Snort IDS, etc...
PPPoA/PPPoE, VPN, IPSec, DHCP
DDNS, Internal DNS, Squid Proxy server

Unless you want to learn how all the components work.
And even then, I'd edge you towards something like Gentoo.


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Bryan J. Smith   mailto:b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx