William L. Maltby wrote:
On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 09:33 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Peter Farrell wrote:
"Problem is I want a REAL router/firewall with little work."
Run a smoothwall installtion and replace your CentOS install.
http://www.smoothwall.org/
well first challenge is my unit's USB ethernet dongles. Centos uses the
RTL 8150 driver for them. Smoothwall only lists the RTL 8129, 8139, and
8169...
I've used this at home for years. I don't know if it's suitable, but it
seems *very* flexible. Allows for NAT or not, has typical zones,
reporting, IPTables modification support, ...
http://www.ipcop.org/
Has run/tested successfully on various configurations here. It's another
"ditch your CentOS" solution though. But you can put it on any old junk
laying around and it'ss probably work. Using cable modem in the boonies,
486DX/66 gives about 450KB/sec, Pentium 200MHz pci gives <= 700MB/sec -
both from decent sites. Tested using both ISA and PCI bus adapters
through both twisted pair and thin coax.
As I thought about things this morning, trying to put up smoothwall, I
realized that one of my goals is to have a tool to turn a Centos system
that I am using for foo, into a firewall for bar for a day. I have
Astaro for my serious firewall needs (see later post), but need
something 'portable'. You see I have these plans with some small itx
systems....
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