Alex> My project: build a home firewall/NAT box on which I can have a Alex> web app where my kids check off when they have done their chores Alex> in order to get screen time (aka internet access).
So what's to stop them from just checking off the boxes any way? :-) Alex> The web app I can write. I can build a firewall/NAT box by hand Alex> in iptables, but do I have to? Alex> On the one hand, I found several complete distributions that do Alex> this: m0n0wall, smoothwall, etc. On the other hand, what I would Alex> like is software that does most of what those bundled Alex> distributions do that I can install on my existing linux Alex> system. In that realm all I have found is use raw iptables or Alex> things called apf and csf, which appear to be geared towards an Alex> ISP rather than a home network; in particular, I would worry Alex> that they would take over and clobber the NAT configs. So my Alex> question is, can one get the nice software built for the Alex> m0n0wall or smoothwall distros as standalone packages that can Alex> be installed on any other linux? (In my case Scientific Linux, a Alex> RHEL clone). I personally would look at adding to smoothwall, or maybe the latest version of m0n0wall which is based on FreeBSD 8 (9?) and has PHP already there. But the nice thing is that I think you can actually just run this app anywhere, and have it hook into the router to open/close ports at need. _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
