On 06:51 Wed 21 Jan , Rumen Yotov wrote: > On ??, 2004-01-20 at 20:39, Thomas Achtemichuk wrote: > > On 01/20/04 13:34:31, Ian Truelsen wrote: > > > I have been thinking about having my firewall box boot and run from a CD > > > so that there are no writable filesystems and there should be no need to > > > even have a HD. Can this be done with Gentoo or do I have to look at one > > > of the smaller distros? Also, does this seem like a good idea? > > > > This is a great idea - there are a few solutions available that you should > > look at first before you go reinventing the wheel. > > > > Gibraltar[1] - Debian based, web-gui in the pay version, freeware version > > ClosedBSD[2] - FreeBSD based, ncurses GUI, free, floppy or CD > > Sentry Firewall[3] - Linux based, Firewall, IDS, CLI tools & webmin > > > > You can probably find a bunch more on distrowatch.com > > > > [1] - http://www.gibraltar.at > > [2] - http://www.closedbsd.org > > [3] - http://www.sentryfirewall.com > Hi, > Could also check Devil-Linux on devil-linux.org it comes with PaX & > GRSecurity for the kernel and propolice for almost all binaries. Also > have a text menu for config. It's less than 100 M. > --
Sysresccd is a rescue cd based on Gentoo. At their site, http://www.sysresccd.org, are instructions for modifying it. It might give you a start. -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
