[CentOS] Re: Firewall frustration

Tue Jan 1 17:04:23 UTC 2008
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

Mark Weaver wrote:
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> Ugo Bellavance <ugob at lubik.ca> wrote:
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>> I guess he wants it to be portable.
>>
>> He seems to be knowing his requirements a lot better than we do.  It 
>> looks like he wants an easy firewall that would boot for HD only,
>> cost nothing, and runs with usb ethernet devices.
>>
>> I really think he should carry an embedded firewall (like a soekris
>> or a wrap) with pfsense on it.
>>
>> Ugo
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> well... if he built a live CD that would essentially "be" a portable
> firewall. Just boot the CD in what ever machine you've got it
> configured for and off you go.
>   
bad assumption about available CD.  But bootable USB is an option, and 
they are cheap enough (check out ecost countdowns), and hold more than a CD.


That will be coming next.  Centos on a USB drive.  DSL on USB is 
supposedly 'easy'.