Linux/Unix - Firewall

Author

Firewall

Stardust

2002-06-08, 8:48 pm

Well my company wants to setup a Win2000 server but guess what we have no firewall. Hmmmmm...asking for trouble. So with no budget set aside for a firewall I'm looking into the idea of building a firewall with one of the old computers we have about. I know there are a ton of Linux firewall programs out there...which ones would the readers of this board recommend?? Thanks for your time and advise!!

neuralfx

2002-06-09, 1:49 am

Well, there are so many choices, which is what I love .. If you want security out of the box, you can look at OpenBSD .. security is the sole reason it exists .. Or some of the various "hardened distros" of linux, such as SmoothWall and Hardlinux .. normally ran from a cd without a need for a harddrive ..
-neural

ccieToBe

2002-06-09, 9:36 am

I'd go with OpenBSD loaded on a solid state PC (no hard drives or fans to go bad). Once OpenBSD's loaded I'd setup at least pf (stateful packet filter) and consider some other security apps that are out there like snort (intrusion detection system) and portsentry (blocks attacking IPs).

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