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