Brian, > DSL Gateway Firewall > Posted by: "Brian Boothe" [EMAIL PROTECTED] codemage67 > Date: Fri Sep 1, 2006 2:06 pm (PDT) > > Does anyone else run Knoppix DSL Linux ? im neededing assistance in setting > up a Gateway / Firewall
Make your life easier! Check out a Linux distribution completely designed for use as a firewall. I've been using a completely plug-n-play system installed on an old Pentium 1-166 for a number of years. I have a number of PCs running Linux and Windows 2000 and XP behind the firewall box and they have all been great over the years. Check out http://smoothwall.org and do a quick download of the bootable install CD (20+ MB ISO image file.) Burn the ISO to a CD with your CD burning software, and boot the PC with the CD as the first boot device. Installing this software completely wipes the hard drive of the system used - so some older, unneeded hardware is needed. RAM requirements are pretty low, 64 MB will do, more is a bit better. Hard drive needs are pretty minimal too. Smoothwall gives you a firewall with IPTables, an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) with Snort, NAT (Network Address Translation) with DHCP, a VPN, proxy support with Squid, a web server (Apache) in a DMZ, and much more. All open source components. Lots of easy-to-follow documentation (in PDF format) available as well as forum support. Configuration after the initial setup/reboot is done via a web interface from a client PC (Windows or Linux) to the web server of the firewall box off the "GREEN" network. Setup is easy: cable modem comes in plugs into the "RED" (or unsafe, open to Internet) NIC. Another cable for the "GREEN" NIC (safe, home network) plugs into a switch that all the other house systems plug into. Everyone behind the firewall on the GREEN network gets a 192.168.10.xxx address given to them by the Smoothwall box's DHCP server. The outside world, of course, never sees these internal addresses--only the addressed supplied to the RED NIC by the cable modem connection to the digital cable network. You can also check out another firewall distribution called IPCop - pretty similar to Smoothwall, but also supports a wireless sub-network as part of the installation (with a third or fourth NIC.) I hope this helps! -*-Bill To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
