[NCLUG] ipchains and firewalls

[Matt Pujol]

I muddled with ipchains and was never quite sure what I was protecting.
I've been running SmoothWall for the last couple of months and I like it a
lot.  It seems to have all the right stuff, i.e. prebuilt chains for free.

Has anybody made the VPN option on SmoothWall work?

Matt

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-----Original Message-----
From: nclug-admin at nclug.org [mailto:nclug-admin at nclug.org]On Behalf Of
Neil Doane
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 9:17 AM
To: nclug at nclug.org
Subject: Re: [NCLUG] ipchains and firewalls


> Second question:  If I buy one of the cheap hub/router/firewall boxes (as
> opposed to using an old machine as a firewall and buying a hub) can I
> have the same kind of control as what I'm doing with ipchains?  A
> specialized box would be more convenient for several reasons but I
> would like to have the kind of control that ipchains seems to provide.

Have you looked at SmoothWall?  www.smoothwall.org  Neat stuff that.



Neil



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