[CentOS] Re: Low RAM -- Security Appliance distros ...
Ugo Bellavance
ugob at camo-route.com
Wed Jul 20 13:29:13 UTC 2005
Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:
> From: User Lists <clopmz at yahoo.com>
>
>>Thak you for your responses.
>>I will use CentOS-3 as a firewall..
>
>
> Nothing against CentOS as a firewall, but you might
> consider a distro that is more focused as a plop'n drop
> "security applicance" distro:
> http://www.ipcop.org
>
> 4-zone segmentation (WAN, DMZ, LAN, WLAN)
> Integrated real-time and statistical logging, Snort IDS, etc...
> PPPoA/PPPoE, VPN, IPSec, DHCP
> DDNS, Internal DNS, Squid Proxy server
>
> Unless you want to learn how all the components work.
> And even then, I'd edge you towards something like Gentoo.
There are also some very good products on the BSD side.
m0n0wall: http://m0n0.ch/wall/ (I personnaly use it. Very good product)
PFSense: http://www.pfsense.com/ (alpha software, but has more
components than m0n0)
hth
UGo
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