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os to use for firewall pc

Post by Alex Curver » Fri, 23 Nov 2001 20:35:24



Which os / distro could i use best for a dedicated firewall ?
Please only answer if ur a IT pofessional and got experience with this.

Regards Alex

 
 
 
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Post by Simon Gree » Fri, 23 Nov 2001 20:42:37


Let me be the first to say: Linux.

> Which os / distro could i use best for a dedicated firewall ?
> Please only answer if ur a IT pofessional and got experience with this.

> Regards Alex


 
 
 
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Post by Tim Hayne » Fri, 23 Nov 2001 21:02:57



> Which os / distro could i use best for a dedicated firewall ?

Whichever you know best and makes your life easiest.

Quote:> Please only answer if ur a IT pofessional and got experience with this.

Please only install it if you're a competent admin.

~Tim
--

                                            |http://spodzone.org.uk/

 
 
 
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Post by Sean » Sat, 24 Nov 2001 00:41:28


Competent admin,,,,Install in anyway,, thats how you learn.  I am by no
means good at it,,, but I have learned a few things here and there.  And the
guys here have been a terrific help..

Charge on,,,   by the way,, I use RedHat..

Sean


> > Which os / distro could i use best for a dedicated firewall ?

> Whichever you know best and makes your life easiest.

> > Please only answer if ur a IT pofessional and got experience with this.

> Please only install it if you're a competent admin.

> ~Tim
> --
> Gabrielle and Madelene were just dolls.


Quote:>                                             |http://spodzone.org.uk/

 
 
 
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Post by Petra Popp » Sat, 24 Nov 2001 01:40:59


Quote:> Please only answer if ur a IT pofessional and got experience with this.

it depends on your experience. i believe that open bsd would be best, but if
you've only linux knowledge, use linux. but i'm sure that you should install
an open os (linux, open/free/net bsd, some other un*x)

linux for windows haters, bsd for un*x lovers;-)

cya, pp

 
 
 
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Post by Geof » Sat, 24 Nov 2001 05:02:48


Why not use a linux based pre-configured firewall/router package such
as Smoothwall or Astaro linux?
Both are free for home use.



Quote:>Which os / distro could i use best for a dedicated firewall ?
>Please only answer if ur a IT pofessional and got experience with this.

>Regards Alex

 
 
 
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Post by James Redfer » Sat, 24 Nov 2001 06:37:54



Quote:> Which os / distro could i use best for a dedicated firewall ?
> Please only answer if ur a IT pofessional and got experience with this.

This is quite old so I don't know how many of them are still in
business, but there's a raft of them...

http://www.txdirect.net/users/mdfranz/tinux.html

JR.

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Post by Hal Burgis » Sat, 24 Nov 2001 06:48:28




Quote:> Which os / distro could i use best for a dedicated firewall ?

In a way, a firewall is only as good as whoever sets it up and maintains
it. Sorry, it just strikes me as the wrong kind of question to be asking ...

Quote:> Please only answer if ur a IT pofessional and got experience with this.

Maybe there is a different group for IT pofessionals only?

--
Hal Burgiss

 
 
 
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Post by James Redfer » Sat, 24 Nov 2001 06:55:18



Quote:> Which os / distro could i use best for a dedicated firewall ?

Oh, and I found a few more you might want to check out... 8^)

http://trinux.sourceforge.net/
http://sunsite.auc.dk/mulinux/
http://www.linuxrouter.org/
http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~rip/seth.html
http://tuma.stc.cx/nuclinux.php
http://www.cyncore.com/spyLinux.html
http://home.tu-clausthal.de/~incp/hal91/
http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/usr/h93/h9301726/dlx.html
http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/
http://www.coyotelinux.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/smalllinux/
http://www.mungkie.btinternet.co.uk/projects/2diskXwin.htm
http://xdenu.tcm.hut.fi/
http://loaf.ecks.org/
http://underground.cz/brutalware/
http://pocket-linux.coven.vmh.net/
http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/
http://floppix.ccai.com/index.html
http://crashrecovery.org/
http://www.liap.eu.org/
http://www.quietsche-entchen.de/giotto/
http://www.freesco.com/
http://www.ee.mu.oz.au/staff/paul/linux/neptune/
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ichi/baslinux.html
http://old.dhs.org/~adosch/
http://www.greycatlinux.myweb.nl/
http://alfalinux.sourceforge.net/alfaeng.php3
http://home.kscable.com/wecoyote/FrazierWall.html
http://fli4l.de
http://www.geocities.com/hugorabson/mindi_linux.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery/!INDEX.html
http://www.croftj.net/~fawcett/yard/
http://www.toms.net/rb/

JR.

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James Redfern at The Redfern Organization
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Post by Kasper Dupon » Sat, 24 Nov 2001 07:53:39



> linux for windows haters, bsd for un*x lovers;-)

I fall in both groups, which OS should I use? :-)

--
Kasper Dupont

 
 
 
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Post by Hos » Sat, 24 Nov 2001 09:04:15


linux will do a fine job ........ i use redhat ....... 7.0 but a stripped
down installation, no GUI .... it's not needed at all .... make sure you do
a  NTSYSV and turn off anything you don't use .... install ssh and use it
instead of telnet don't install anything you don't need .... and i agree
with a post from Hal Burgiss that firewall will only be as reliable as
whoever sets it up / maintains it

this is the web site that i have always used for every firewall that i have
put together for friends & family
http://www.linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/firewall/index.html

hope this helps

hos


Quote:> Which os / distro could i use best for a dedicated firewall ?
> Please only answer if ur a IT pofessional and got experience with this.

> Regards Alex

 
 
 
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Post by Tim Hayne » Sat, 24 Nov 2001 09:58:23




> > linux for windows haters, bsd for un*x lovers;-)

> I fall in both groups, which OS should I use? :-)

One of the offerings providing a `dir' command ;)

~Tim
--

and settled down to sleep.                  |http://spodzone.org.uk/

 
 
 
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Post by Kasper Dupon » Sat, 24 Nov 2001 14:21:46



> linux will do a fine job ........ i use redhat ....... 7.0

RedHat 7.0 is not the best choice for a firewall, it uses
kernel version 2.2.16 which means that you have to use
ipchains for your firewall.

In 2.4.x kernels you can use iptables which is much better.
In particular connection tracking is a good feature. You
can now write simpler rulesets doing a better job than was
possible with ipchains.

--
Kasper Dupont

 
 
 
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Post by Spyros Tsioli » Fri, 12 Apr 2002 01:19:50


Great list ! :-)

Also ,

http://www.ipcop.org

Although the release is in its infancy (v.0.1.1)

s.



Quote:> Which os / distro could i use best for a dedicated firewall ?

Oh, and I found a few more you might want to check out... 8^)

http://trinux.sourceforge.net/
http://sunsite.auc.dk/mulinux/
http://www.linuxrouter.org/
http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~rip/seth.html
http://tuma.stc.cx/nuclinux.php
http://www.cyncore.com/spyLinux.html
http://home.tu-clausthal.de/~incp/hal91/
http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/usr/h93/h9301726/dlx.html
http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/
http://www.coyotelinux.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/smalllinux/
http://www.mungkie.btinternet.co.uk/projects/2diskXwin.htm
http://xdenu.tcm.hut.fi/
http://loaf.ecks.org/
http://underground.cz/brutalware/
http://pocket-linux.coven.vmh.net/
http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/
http://floppix.ccai.com/index.html
http://crashrecovery.org/
http://www.liap.eu.org/
http://www.quietsche-entchen.de/giotto/
http://www.freesco.com/
http://www.ee.mu.oz.au/staff/paul/linux/neptune/
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ichi/baslinux.html
http://old.dhs.org/~adosch/
http://www.greycatlinux.myweb.nl/
http://alfalinux.sourceforge.net/alfaeng.php3
http://home.kscable.com/wecoyote/FrazierWall.html
http://fli4l.de
http://www.geocities.com/hugorabson/mindi_linux.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery/!INDEX.html
http://www.croftj.net/~fawcett/yard/
http://www.toms.net/rb/

JR.

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James Redfern at The Redfern Organization
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1. Using Linux or OS/2 as Internet Gateway/Firewall

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I'm checking into how the company I work for can get a live connection
to the Internet, and need some guidance.  We're running on a Novell
3.11/4.x network with Mac, DOS/Windows, and OS/2 clients.  We want to
provide Internet access for our users for email (probably gatewayed
through cc:Mail), Mosaic, gopher, telnet, ftp, Usenet news, and other
services.  We are probably going to use a dedicated dial-up service
(28.8K modems) via SLIP or PPP for now, with plans to move to
higher-bandwidth connections as demand increases.

Our plan now is to have both TCP/IP and IPX running on our network,
with a computer acting as a local Internet node on the network.  This
computer would be connected via dial-up or leased line to our Internet
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I'm trying to figure out how we can use this computer to be both a
gateway (with some security) and a local repository for Usenet
newsgroups, possible external ftp/telnet access, etc.  We would be
running on our own domain (xyz.com), so I guess we'd allocate IP
addresses within our organization.  We want to be able to restrict
access to our network, such as only allowing in traffic for certain
addresses, or only at certain hours of the day or certain days of the
week.  This traffic wouldn't have the address of the gateway, but of a
client machine on the network.

However, there would be traffic for the gateway machine as well
(ftp/telnet/finger/UUCP-transer/other traffic).  Originating from our
network we would have outgoing traffic intended for other machines on
the Internet that would have to pass through the gateway, but we might
want to be able to limit that traffic as well to conserve the
bandwidth we have.

What kind of software would we have to get to be able to do this?  Is
it available for OS/2 or Linux?  Which platform is going to be easier
to set-up and more capable of doing these various tasks?  Can you
recommend some books or on-line resources (ftp, telnet, newsgroups,
etc) that I can use to learn how these types of things are done (I've
got Linux running via SLIP, so I'm not completely helpless about some
of these things).

I appreciate your time and help in getting this set up.  Hopefully my
company will let me use the connection to provide some services to the
Internet when we do get it running.

Thanks.
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