Building A Firewall

[mddolloff]

I am thinking about taking my Pentium 133 and making it a firewall before reaching my DSL router. Do people recomend doing this? If so does anyone know where I can get an idea on how to set up such a firewall? Thanks.

 

[JackMDS]

Functional Solutions for installing a Linux Box.

Link to: Linux Router.

Link to: How to Network Mandrake 9.0 to Windows XP.

This is a previous version of Mandrake but worth while reading as an introduction.

Link to: Installing Mandrake8.0: a Newbie's Guide to Freedom.

 

[wlee]

You might want to try out the new ver of SMOOTHWALL 2.0 It's the simplest of the Linux Firewalls to setup. If you really need to customize, then you need something like ASTARO. I doubt Astaro will run well if at all on a P133 though.

 

[starwarsdad]

IPCop is another good one.

 

[martind1]

might want to think about a hardware firewall solution.

 

[n0cmonkey]

OpenBSD's bridging is nice.

 

[cmetz]

mddolloff, it comes down to how much time you can spend on it and your own skill level. If you want quick and easy, $10 SOHO routers are quick and easy. A PC firewall will always be a bit of the labor of love, but they pay off in extra power and extra learning.

If you're not a UNIX person, Smoothwall, IP Cop, or some other firewall-oriented Linux distribution with a web-GUI interface. These are basically SOHO router on steriods solutions.

If you are a UNIX person, run OpenBSD. pf good.

 

[Need4Speed]

shorewall

 

[Nothinman]

A lot of the Linksys stuff runs (or atleast used to) Linux, so if you really wanted you could add your own software to it. But I'm not sure about the storage, it might be volatile so you'd not want to reboot it often heh.

 

[jonmullen]

I have never had any problems with linux and iptables...I hear BSD and pf is great also its just have I have some software I wrote to work with iptables and I dont want to change it is the only reason I dont have personal experience with pf