Re: Using old computer as firewall

From: Coercitas Temet'Nosce (coercitas@hotmail.com)
Date: 12/29/02 

From: "Coercitas Temet'Nosce" <coercitas@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 22:55:16 +0100

Hello

Try MNF 8.2 (Multi Network Firewall) from Mandrake, easy to install, quite
easy to basically set up, based on Iptables (Statefull firewall) and
Shorewall Script. It can work with as many interfaces you need, supposed
unlimited but of course, hard to put more than 6 lan adapters on the same
box :p

Very nice product and free.
"Bob" <flames2devnull@cox.net> a écrit dans le message de news:
Xns92F2DFC4BB8B4s6re5mm4ap3s2Uk1cu0f@68.1.17.6...
> At Sun, 22 Dec 2002 20:53:17 GMT, "Ralph" <ralph@invalid.invalid> reached
> down, grabbed what he thought was the keyboard and started stroking in
> comp.security.firewalls:
>
> > Can somebody point me to a website that would explain how to setup an
> > old box connecting to the internet as a sort of firewall on a lan? I
> > believe langa gave instructions on how to do this as part of a layered
> > security feature, but I haven't been able to find it by searching his
> > site.
> >
>
> On recommendation, I installed Smoothwall, a Linux based firewall. The
> current version is GPL 1.0 (freeware) and there is a corporate version GPL
> 2.0.
>
> You should be able to burn a CD image from the web site,
www.smoothwall.org,
> and the installation takes care of itself. You will need to configure
> various aspects of your network, both GREEN (private LAN, including DHCP
if
> opted) and RED (ISP) interfaces. There is support for an ORANGE interface
> for DMZ server support.
>
>
> HTH
>
>
> --
> FLAMES > /dev/null

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