home firewall/server

[dale at puredistortion.com (Dale Stirling)]

For a Firewall Gateway device that I use at home is the community edition of
Astaro.

http://www.astaro.com

It has heaps of features and I have deployed the commercial software and
appliance versions in many organisations.

Dale

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:14 AM, Vincent Lape <vlape at me.com> wrote:

> Have not played with it in a couple years but try taking a look at
> ClarkConnect
>
> http://www.clarkconnect.com/
>
> On Jul 8, 2009, at 7:41 AM, Nils wrote:
>
> > For file/web and quite some other services I recommend the eisfair
> > project .
> > It has a decent package and update management.
> > http://www.eisfair.org/en/eisfair/news/
> > I have it running and serving Samba shares for quite some years on a
> > -->
> > Pentium II 333Mhz  <--    ;-)
> >
> > I doubt it could be used as firewall. And if, I'd never recommend
> > having the
> > firewall on the same system as the data.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nils
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com
> > [mailto:pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com] On Behalf Of Dmitry
> > Nedospasov
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 2:31 PM
> > To: PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] home firewall/server
> >
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> > If you want to have some fun, I run openwrt x86 in a xen VM on my home
> > server. You just have to custom compile a kernel from the svn and
> > enable
> > paravirtualization.
> >
> > Works great, and i get full performance out of my connection (as
> > opposed to
> > my wrt54gl which would top out at 30-40Mbit/s)
> >
> > D.
> >
> > On Jul 8, 2009, at 11:02 , Bert Van Kets wrote:
> >
> > > Hi guys,
> > >
> > > I'm a newbie when it come to setting up a server with enterprise
> > > services. I have been using Linux for several years now and have a
> > > MythTV box running. I have four PCs running and there's no Windows in
> > > this house. :-D
> > >
> > > I was playing with the idea of setting up a multi purpose server
> > > (file
> > > sharing, print server, proxy, DNS, ...). The terms multi-purpose and
> > > security do not go hand in hand, but that is a trade off I have to
> > > take because I can not afford to run a full rack.
> > >
> > > The main question is: Can I use the one machine as a firewall, using
> > > multiple network cards on different subnets, and at the same time run
> > > Squid, SMTP, DNS, DHCPD, CUPS, etc.. on it?
> > > What is the take of the experts on a situation like this? Keep in
> > > mind
> > > this is a home situation with a limited budget.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Bert
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