On 2005-08-27 14:11 Sid Boyce wrote:
Donn Washburn wrote:
James Wright wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Here's some simple instructions, for making a Linux firewall.
Along the same lines (firewalls), Trustix is offering their Enterprise Firewall for free. http://www.trustix.com/purchase/index.html Note: when I downloaded it, the reciept they e-mailed me included this line:
Validity Period : 1 year (23-AUG-05 to 22-AUG-06)
It does not specify whether this will cause the firewall to cease to function, or if I just will not be able to get support after that date.
James W
It appears to be demo version
I'm perplexed at the lack of response to me suggesting Astaro, it's free, you don't have to believe the advertising blurb, you can go through a demo online that is real-world. It supports the addition of WIFI. It's all chrooted so there is no way of manually altering, copying or installing anything as it says you don't have a hard drive or a floppy when you try. The config can be backed up to the box you are using to admin the firewall. The online updates are quite regular, no time limits on the software and it's painless to upgrade, besides being arguably the best darn Linux firewall. There is a quite active forum. The only problem I had with it was with ssh from the outside, but that was due to my lack of understanding of NAT rules, I just get confused as to what is source and what is destination, but the forum helped me out. I was looking for a way I could suggest to Astaro they include VPN, anti-virus and Content filtering in the free version or to somehow produce a cheap version, may be they could allow the full version for free personal use as the downloaded version has to be paid for if used by companies, which really means they get a license that turns on the full version functionality. As with many Linux based stuff like TomTom GPS's and some firewalls that will only work with Windows, their on-line seminar needs IE when I tried attending online, IE under crossover office also didn't work, so I gave them serious grief over that, they kindly sent me a PDF version of it. Regards Sid.
Astaro isn't free.. They state on their web site that "Prices start at US$330". Even if it was, Astaro doesn't have support for such a simple thing as APC UPS. I don't know if Trustix has, their spec on their site doesn't tell. The only enterprise class firewall I've seen so far with UPS support is SmoothWall Corp. server, which doesn't come free either. Anders.