Re: recommend a hardware firewall

From: Andrew Mitchell (amitchell_at_removecasey.vic.gov.au)
Date: 09/18/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 07:45:47 -0700

"Dave" <dave(delete_this)@miraclecatDELETETHISTOO.com> said

> Thanks Steve!
>

Not exactly hardware based (but neither are so-called 'hardware' firewalls
either.....) but your other option is to cobble together an old PC (any old
machine will do) and install IPCop or SmoothWall on it.

http://www.ipcop.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/IPCop/WebHome
http://www.smoothwall.org/

They are both free, fully featured firewalls based on a Linux kernel. Both
will provide port forwarding, while IPCop will also provide a DMZ and a
Wireless DMZ as well.

>From the time you have booted from the CD, it takes about 15 minutes to
install and fully configure the device. 

-- 
Andy.
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