I agree a firewall should not have installed services or applications that are not required in its role. Check out www.ipcop.org. Its 28 mb based on RedHat 7.2 but uses the 2.2 kernel and ipchains (not iptables). Being a recent distro means its easier to patch/update. In fact, the web interface makes patching the fw a snap. Administration is simplified as well.
I am testing it out at the moment and so far I'm satisfied. Sean. --- Florian Hobelsberger / BlueScreen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Network Card: > I would recommend you a NIC with a Realtek 8139 > chipset. > It supports 10 / 100 MBit and is based on PCI. > Usually, it is really easy to > configure it under Linux. > Usually it should not cost more than 15 USD. > > About the Distribution: > I don't have a suggestion here, just one point to > think about: Use a > distribution with which you don't install much crap > that you won't need. > Perhaps you just have a look at www.linuxiso.org > where you can download some > quite nice distributions. > > > Firewall itself: > IPTables or IPChains, at most distributions it is > already part of the > package. Perhaps you should consider to use snort as > an addition (snort is a > Intrusion Detection System. Firewalls are some kind > of stupid and just work > as a simple packet filter: Where is the packet > coming from and where does it > want to go. This Network Intrusion Detection System > also analyzes the > content of the traffic and can alarm you if some bad > stuff is coming through > ;) > > > Best regards, > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > BlueScreen / Florian Hobelsberger (UIN: 101782087) > Member of: > www.IT-Checkpoint.net > www.Hackeinsteiger.de > www.DvLdW.de > > ================================================================== > To encrypt classified messages, please download and > use this PGP-Key: > > http://www.florian-hobelsberger.de/BlueScreen-PGP-PubKey.txt > ================================================================== > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/
