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

[ugob at camo-route.com (Ugo Bellavance)]

Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

There are also some very good products on the BSD side.

m0n0wall: http://m0n0.ch/wall/ (I personnaly use it.  Very good product)
PFSense:  http://www.pfsense.com/ (alpha software, but has more
components than m0n0)

hth

UGo