Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith@ieee.org wrote:
From: User Lists clopmz@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
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