I had a good experience in recently deploying the IPCop firewall. ICop is dedicated linux distribution; a fork of the smoothwall project. It has a slick user interface (httpd), supporting VPN, proxy server, wireless LAN, ssh, and more, lots of add-ons, great support community, and the power of iptables underneath the UI. IPCop supports four interfaces - inside, outside, dmz & wireless. Basic to medium complexity firewall rules can be implemented through the UI. Complex rules through the iptables command line.
Caveat: while Iptables itself requires very little processing power, the httpd UI requires a recent machine for reasonable html rendering
www.ipcop.org
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From: Wilson <securitynewsgroup_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:19:53
To: <security-basics_at_securityfocus.com>
Subject: RE: firewalls
I haven't used it for a while, but try IPCOP - http://www.ipcop.org/
Wilson
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[mailto:listbounce_at_securityfocus.com] On Behalf Of Damian
Sent: Sunday, 11 January 2009 11:54 AM
To: Sec-Basics
Subject: firewalls
So I need some advice on firewall security. I use ubuntu servers at
work and am very comfortable with debian. At work we have a cisco piz
firewall....however another smaller company we help doesn't have the
budget or staff for a pix firewall. I was considering using a distro
like redwall or smoothwall and was wondering if anyone had any
experience with dedicated distros like these. Also do these distros
offer better security then larger installations?
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