-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:21:34 -0500 Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 09:33 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > >> Peter Farrell wrote: > >> > >>> "Problem is I want a REAL router/firewall with little work." > >>> > >>> Run a smoothwall installtion and replace your CentOS install. > >>> > >>> http://www.smoothwall.org/ > >>> > >>> > >> well first challenge is my unit's USB ethernet dongles. Centos > >> uses the RTL 8150 driver for them. Smoothwall only lists the RTL > >> 8129, 8139, and 8169... > >> > > > > I've used this at home for years. I don't know if it's suitable, > > but it seems *very* flexible. Allows for NAT or not, has typical > > zones, reporting, IPTables modification support, ... > > > > http://www.ipcop.org/ > > > > Has run/tested successfully on various configurations here. It's > > another "ditch your CentOS" solution though. But you can put it on > > any old junk laying around and it'ss probably work. Using cable > > modem in the boonies, 486DX/66 gives about 450KB/sec, Pentium > > 200MHz pci gives <= 700MB/sec - both from decent sites. Tested > > using both ISA and PCI bus adapters through both twisted pair and > > thin coax. > As I thought about things this morning, trying to put up smoothwall, > I realized that one of my goals is to have a tool to turn a Centos > system that I am using for foo, into a firewall for bar for a day. I > have Astaro for my serious firewall needs (see later post), but need > something 'portable'. You see I have these plans with some small itx > systems.... have you considered linux that fits on a floppy disk? http://mypage.uniserve.ca/~thelinuxguy/small_and_floppy_linux/ http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/Floppy/ http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Distributions/Tiny/Floppy_Sized/ get one running and configured and save to floppy... things go south reboot the machine and everything is back. no hard drives to worry about... - -- Mark "Drunkenness is not an excuse for stupidity. If you're stupid when you're sober then that's one thing, but if you're sober when you're stupid, then you're just plain stupid!" ============================================== Powered by CentOS5 (RHEL5) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHeZKZAHUWFbtwPigRAqlLAJ9NrXCoPuh0vyCET81GKQ7a27RQ0QCbBvkT Ez253XYLAOfSJS7u5ij36U4= =jb20 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----