Jerry Westrick wrote:
On Tuesday 17 May 2005 14:43, Sid Boyce wrote:
Jerry Westrick wrote:
Don't forget to look into floppyfw distro (http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/) I've used it on 3 machines. The configuration of the firewall via fwbuilder (www.fwbuilder.com) makes this mini-mini-distro (as the name says, it boots from a floppy) extremely powerfull.
Jerry
That's interesting, floppyfw up to 2.02 was the very first one I used, until I ran into problems getting SIP and VOIP ports through it, emailed the developer for help, but got no reply. Then you had to hand code the NAT stuff, mine looked fine, but didn't work. A friend had the same problems, so we both switched to BBIagent and never looked back. When I went VPN into work, I enabled a few ports, it worked flawlessly and banished dial-up for me. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux for all Computing Tasks
fwbuilder (www.fwbuilder.com) is an application that generates your ipf/iptable firewall scripts from a logical description of what you want. IMHO it's the best money can buy, even if it is free 8-)....
It supports FloppyFW, in that it writes the scripts to the floppy, or scp's the scripts over....
Together thier great! Well worth any time you put in them...
Jerry
Sounds good, but I'll stick with BBIagent, you can make changes and additions while it's running with no need for a reboot. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux for all Computing Tasks