Re: [expert] choosing a firewall distro
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 20:00, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: > IPCop is a fork of SmoothWall .99. > Either one is good. However IPCop uses a 2.4.20 kernel and smoothwall still > uses a 2.2 kernel. 2.4.21 to be correct. http://www.smoothwall.org/beta/releases/orient.html David. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] choosing a firewall distro
IPCop is a fork of SmoothWall .99. Either one is good. However IPCop uses a 2.4.20 kernel and smoothwall still uses a 2.2 kernel. Also IPCop can save your configuration on a floppy, so if you have to reinstall you can use the disk for quick recovery without having to remember your settings. For me that feature alone makes IPCop better. :^) Ralph On Tuesday 15 July 2003 12:13 pm, Gavin wrote: > Experts, > Most of my friends have suggested using IPCOP or SMOOTHWALL for my f/w. > question, is there a noticeable difference between the two? I ran both and > they seem almost the same.. I'm new to this firewall stuff. All I would > like is a simple safe F/W to protect my small private school network.. in > short I don't need to kill ants with lighting bolts!! any suggestions are > welcomed! > > TIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] choosing a firewall distro
If you just want a quick-n-dirty stateful inspection engine to keep the script kiddies out, any firewall package with reasonable defaults will do the job. There are about twenty packages on http://www.distrowatch.com aiming to provide just that, including Mandrake's own MNF. If you want a platform you can learn from or build on, I would suggest a third choice: http://leaf.sourceforge.net, grab a Bering ISO and load that up. Security is a process not a product. "My organization is small and therefore unnoticed on the Internet" is no excuse for shoddy security. There are a million reasons why, but in the interests of time I'll just provide one: you may not be protecting data that is of much interest to anyone except your students and their parents: but you still represent a pool of computing resources with a network connection. The bad guys who don't care about your data will be much more interested in using your resources as a spam blaster or a launching pad for attacks against other sites. Having decent security on the Internet is not like putting a lock on your house, it's more like putting locks on your car. Jack On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 09:13, Gavin wrote: > Experts, > Most of my friends have suggested using IPCOP or SMOOTHWALL for my f/w. > question, is there a noticeable difference between the two? I ran both and > they seem almost the same.. I'm new to this firewall stuff. All I would like > is a simple safe F/W to protect my small private school network.. in short I > don't need to kill ants with lighting bolts!! any suggestions are welcomed! > > TIA -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... http://www.monkeynoodle.org/resume.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] choosing a firewall distro
Experts, Most of my friends have suggested using IPCOP or SMOOTHWALL for my f/w. question, is there a noticeable difference between the two? I ran both and they seem almost the same.. I'm new to this firewall stuff. All I would like is a simple safe F/W to protect my small private school network.. in short I don't need to kill ants with lighting bolts!! any suggestions are welcomed! TIA -- Grasshopper c/o GES Register Linux user # 199685 Sent 2u on a M$ free system!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
