[ale] Alas! At long last I've been hacked.

[Byron A Jeff]

> 
> On Sunday 02 February 2003 09:47 am, Byron A Jeff wrote:
> > After nearly 4 years of near continuous connection to the net via cable
> > modem my Linux based internet gateway has been hacked. 
> >
> > I find that I need only very limited functionality:
> >
> > * Basic firewalling
> > * SSH accesibility to the gateway
> > * SSH accessibility through the gateway to the internal network
> > * Preferable if auto/simple config is available.
> >
> > The hardware is a PII-200 with 64M. I'm not sure if it'll CD boot but
> > I'd be interested in a read only media boot solution.
> 
> Sounds like a job for IPCop--except for the RO media boot.  That would be
> LRP.  But otherwise IPCop (sourceforge) is great.  It is a fork of 
> smoothwall.  It installs in 5 minutes, has a nice GUI configurator, and 
> ssh access from any web browser that supports java and ssl.

Looks interesting. I already installed the Smoothwall 2.0 beta 4. Any reason
that you can think of to take a crack at IPCop instead?

BAJ
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