[NBLUG/talk] Firewall on a stick (diskette)

[Tim Preston]

Thanks for the info... now I need to test!

Hoping to find time this weekend to throw some time at it. If any of you 
want to poke at it, let me know off-list. (It's not that I'm paranoid... 
or anything) :| (I trust Windows! At work!)

Tim


Walter Hansen wrote:

 > I use firestarter, but I'm probably moving to a hardware router, mostly
 > for less wear and tear on the machine. I hear it whirr when I download
 > things. It seems to work well.
 >

Robert C Haas wrote:

I use FREESCO (stands for FREE ciSCO). It incorporates firewalling and 
NAT. more info is at http://www.freesco.org

I have been using it for a year. I recycled an old IBM Box, and I just 
use two NIC cards, a stick of RAM, and a floppy drive. Zero downtime. 
And its a simple setup and configuration. You can administer it through 
your web browser easily, too.


Rob Orsini wrote:

> On May 3, 2005, at 6:48 PM, Tim Preston wrote:
> 
>> Most of you have probably done this before, or at least wanted to try. 
>> So, what can you recommend? What have you tried (recently)? What has 
>> last the test of time (past)?
> 
> 
> I've used IPCop in the past. It's been around for years now. If your a 
> sucker for pretty network traffic graphs, it might be worth looking 
> into. :)
> 
> http://www.ipcop.org/
> 
> rob
> 
>