I believe an option would be Freesco (www.freesco.org). Easy to set up, easy to use. Made to fit on a floppy (Which you can write protect) but I suspect would work on a bootable CD as well. Loves Squid (Which you could cache in memory or on a hard disk or you could even have your Squid cache on the floppy if you really wanted...8-). Don't know about Squid integration with Samba/NT PDC authentication under Freesco, but a query towards the forums at the site would put you right.
Cheers, Peter Hamilton IT Systems Engineer -----Original Message----- From: Mike Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 19 September 2002 10:17 a.m. To: Greg van der Gaast; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: CD-based Firewall with Squid support On Wednesday 18 Sep 2002 7:37 am, Greg van der Gaast wrote: > CD-based? > > As in software on a CD? (like all other software) No, as in boots from a CD, making it a more "secure" firewall. Boot media = read only. Therefore compromised server = reboot. > Greg > Sirs, I am looking for a cd-based firewall that has squid support. The > Squid part is basically to be able to use the NT based authentication of > a LAN NT Domain controller. > Any suggestions are welcomed (google search returned many confusing > items) Then your Google search is not right. I did http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%2B%22bootable+CDROM%22+% 2BLinux+%2Bfirewall&btnG=Google+Search and got some sensible leads. I found several straight out. Sentry Firewall CD was top <=== this is not an endorsement. > Squid part is basically to be able to use the NT based authentication of > a LAN NT Domain controller. I'm puzzled by the squid references though. I assume you are wanting a proxy server on the firewall that can authenticate with your NT domain. Chances are that these products don't offer that and you will have to have a separate box with squid on it that has a "special" hole through your firewall, most probably using NAT to hide the fact that it is on a different box. Mike -- _______________________________________________________________________ "In their capacity as a tool, computers will be but a ripple on the surface of our culture. In their capacity as intellectual challenge, they are without precedent in the cultural history of mankind." Edsger Wybe Dijkstra on Computers
