[ale] Diskless linux firewall?

[James Tanis]

I think your talking about monowall, not monobsd. While I'm sure
monowall uses monobsd, I don't believe the base monobsd install/image
includes the nice firewall frontend. http://www.m0n0.ch/wall/ is the
address for monowall.

On 1/2/06, Thomas Stromberg <lists at stromberg.org> wrote:
>
> On 2 jan 2006, at 12.07, Chris Woodfield wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Something I've been considering doing with my home system is figuring
> > out a way to run my iptables firewall box without a hard drive.
> > Currently it's a typical linux system running a minimal config -
> > iptables rules, dhcpd, sshd, and ksysguardd for remote health
> > monitoring.
>
> While it's not Linux (it's FreeBSD), I highly recommend trying out
> m0n0BSD (http://www.m0n0.ch/bsd/) . It's designed to be a diskless
> firewall/wireless access point, with all configuration done through a
> very slick web interface. Interestingly enough, since a PHP interface
> is used as the management interface, they've decided to make most of
> the operating system configuration files as XML files. As a user,
> it's transparent to you.  I've currently got it installed on an 8MB
> CompactFlash card within a PC Engines WRAP box (http://
> www.pcengines.ch/wrap.htm). It's been running for 18 months without a
> hitch, and much simpler and easier to maintain than my previous
> attempt of rolling my own firewall on a CF card.
>
> Even if you're dead-set to use Linux versus something else, I highly
> recommend giving m0n0BSD a spin.
>
> P.S.: There is a "fork" of m0n0BSD that's based on FreeBSD 6.x called
> pfSense (http://www.pfsense.com/). I haven't yet tried it, but if
> you're looking into experimentation, it may be worth it.
>
> // Thomas Str?mberg
> // http://toadstool.se/
> // +1 678 773 9475
>
>
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