[ale] Need some sort of firewall

[Greg]

Yeah, Smoothwall.  It though is a firewall and nothing but... an appliance
in fact.  The reason is due to the insecurity of having other crap on a
firewall... that is not a firewall, it is 1) a server or 2) a server
masquerading as a firewall.  All security books will back this up.

Smoothwall runs on 486's or any other ancient pc's.  Microseconds on Roswell
Rd (I-285, go North about a half mile or so ..on the right)has stripped down
486's for $10.. add some RAM (4 x $2 = $8) a HD (any size.. 1 GB are only
$10-$15 and are kinda overkill) and 2 nics ($5 / ea) and you are in business
for about what, $38 ?.  Other than that, if you HAVE to run something on
your firewall, then you might want to look at OpenBSD.  It installs nothing
as a default and has been security audited.  Yes, it isn't Linux per se, but
it all depends on how far you are willing to go for a level of security.
Being paranoid and hating to spend hours recovering from evil I have gone
along the Smoothwall path.

Also supports ssh and https for remote operations.

www.smoothwall.org

Good Luck
Greg Canter

-----Original Message-----
From:	owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
Popovitch
Sent:	Wednesday, October 03, 2001 10:41 AM
To:	Tommie M. Jones
Cc:	ale at ale.org
Subject:	Re: [ale] Need some sort of firewall

You need FreeSCO  (Free ciSCO).  Its a simple router on a floppy (but
you can also use a harddrive).  I have been playing around with it on a
box w/ 2 NICs, a modem, and a printer port.  Great stuff.

http://www.freesco.com/

-Jim P.

--- "Tommie M. Jones" <tj at atlantageek.com> wrote:
>
> I'm sure ya'll have covered this before.  I am in need of a firewall
> machine.  I have two computers (one windows box, one linux laptop)
> and
> need a firewall to connect to a cable modem.  It would also be great
> if it
> could server as a printer server as well.  It should also supply
> multiple ehternet portsThe modem supports ethernet and
> usb.  Is there a cheap solution out there that runs out of the box
> and
> supplies a telnet port for power users.
>
> http://www.atlantageek.com
> Get inside Atlanta's Tech scene
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