Re: Suggestions Needed

[Chris Travers <chris () travelamericas com>]

I installed RedHat 7.3 in a minimal install, went through, disabled 
unused services, wrote my custom firewall script then went about 
automating everything.  I also updated the kernel, and a few services 
(such as SSH).  From your post, I doubt this is what you are looking 
for.  While it will teach you a lot about Linux and firewalls it is 
probably not the place to start.

There are a few projects that may give you more of what you are looking 
for--
IPCop (http://icop.sourceoforge.net)
LEAF -- Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall (http://leaf.sourceforge.net)
Sungazer Packet Filter (http://sg-packetfilter.sourceforge.net)

And of course I have to suggest you look into my project too ;-)
FWReport (no web page yet, but see project page and download from 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fwreport)

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
chris () travelamericas com


Justyn wrote:

> I'm a home user rather new to firewalls. I have a spare pc I want to 
> use as a firewall machine for our local lan of 2 workstations w/cable 
> modem. I'm wanting a linux/unix flavor os for the firewall system. 
> Would I be better off using a stripped down os that is tailored for 
> firewall machines or something like redhat/freebsd? Would would anyone 
> suggestion as a starting place to learn.
>
> Thanks!