Hi there, On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 reader@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > "G.W. Haywood" <ged@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > >> I'm setting up a gentoo linux machine who's sole purpose is to get > >> traffic coming to a NETGEAR router upstream [snip] > > > > Why not install a purpose-made firewall distro, and maybe some addons? > > You'll get logs, a GUI, graphs, all kinds of fun stuff. > > I'm not sure what you are talking about there. Do you mean something > like the `Soekris' board running openbsd? No, not at all. > Can you name a few of these purpose built distros? ClarkConnect, Endian, Firestarter, Fli4l, Floppyfw, Gibraltar, GuardDog, IPCop, LutelWall, m0n0wall, NuFW, pfSense, Shorewall, SmoothWall, Turtle, Zorp... You have heard of Google? :) As you can see there are quite a few. They have different design criteria, they started from different places, and most of them made detours along the way. Mainly I use IPCop and SmoothWall, with a substantial amount of fine-tuning by the addition of iptables rules, both scripted and hand-crafted. By the sound of it, you might want something less 'packaged' than the distros that I use. -- 73, Ged. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
