I was in your shoes. Install FreeBSD and configure it for NAT and IPFW. There are How-to's out there on configuring the kernel and such. It's free and seems to work pretty good. A friend of mine showed me that it's easiest to let IPFW run its natural course and then clear those rules and run your own with a simple script in rc.local. I'm sure there will be more elaborate suggestions than this. Good Luck.
-Rick DeNoyer -----Original Message----- From: Justyn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 9:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Suggestions Needed I'm a home user rather new to firewalls. I have a spare pc I want to use as a firewall machine for our local lan of 2 workstations w/cable modem. I'm wanting a linux/unix flavor os for the firewall system. Would I be better off using a stripped down os that is tailored for firewall machines or something like redhat/freebsd? Would would anyone suggestion as a starting place to learn. Thanks!
