m0n0wall I know its not linux, but it's also not windows ;)
The distro is under 8 Mb, can boot off a CF/IDE adapter and supports all sorts of cool router and VPN endpoint functions, as well as hostap mode for wireless. Its three big faults are no support for dialup (not necessarily a bad thing), currently no support for wireless devices faster than 11 Mbit (prism chipset only, not atheros) and no support for wan load balancing (that's the red zone for you IP Coppers) m0n0wall is based on FreeBSD 4.10 currently, and is soon to start moving to 5.x (which will fix the atheros support) www.m0n0.ch/wall/ for more details and it runs on soekris and wrap embedded machines as well as generic PCs. -----Original Message----- From: Andy George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 3 January 2005 10:50 a.m. To: Linux Group Subject: IPCops good but... Experimenting with firewalls, tried the default IPTables, via a script, via Webmin, and played with a P200 being a firewall. IPCop is really good, autodetects the USB Cable modem, the Ethernet card, sets up a heavy duty firewall between the two, and a default route, all the magic needed for a happy comms server. What else do you guys play with? Whats the popular firewall alternatives? -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.7 - Release Date: 12/30/2004
