Kastus wrote:
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 12:40:02AM +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
What about doing a mini-distro for a firewall/router only? O:-)
Not sure if such SUSE product exists. Although Devil Linux (http://www.devil-linux.org/home/index.php) works just perfect as firewall/router. And its rc.config looks quite similar to earlier versions of SuSE so learning curve is minimal.
-Kastus
http://BBIagent.net, I've used this as a floppy firewall for years, I've just subscribed for $26.00 and burned the CD version, it also allows me to save the config so I don't have to key it in after a reboot as was necessary with the free version. I've also used astaro on a 3.2G HD, http://www.astaro.com which is a bit more difficult to setup without having a good knowledge of NAT, couldn't figure out what source and destination referred to, I got it working with some help from the astaro forum, but I think astaro has designed it so you need their course in order to get a full understanding, however, it does intrusion detection, SPAM filtering, virus blocking, VPN, content filtering, etc., it's easy to download updates and update via browser access. Everything is heavily chrooted, try to write something to hard drive or floppy and it says it hasn't got a floppy or a hard drive. With BBIagent, you access it via a browser on your network and simply fill in some boxes with IP addresses and pull down menues for NAT rules, you can run with the floppy write protected, but it's just a firewall with full control of what is let through, it'll block almost all ports by default and you can do site blocking. Both the above are designed for the purpose, you won't have access to the usual apps like you would on even a minimal SuSE distro. 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