Mark Weaver wrote:
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On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:21:34 -0500
Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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....
have you considered linux that fits on a floppy disk?
http://mypage.uniserve.ca/~thelinuxguy/small_and_floppy_linux/
http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/Floppy/
http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Distributions/Tiny/Floppy_Sized/
get one running and configured and save to floppy... things go south
reboot the machine and everything is back. no hard drives to worry
about...
Have you ever thought about how rare floppy drives are now? At best you
go with a bootable usb, if your notebook supports bootable USB. My
Libretto does have a bootable floppy, but that is something extra to
carry. It will not boot from anything else (besides its HD). My nc4010
(this notebook) will boot from usb. My corp notebook (nc2400) is locked
down; and I don't see any value at getting corp IT bent out of shape.
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