I know that Real-Time was working on a CD-ROM based firewall. It was a little NIC computer based on iptables with secure shell interface. Nate or Bob, are you guys still working on that? Thanks, James Spinti jspinti at dartdist dot com 952-368-3278 ext. 396 952-368-3255 (fax) ----- Original Message ----- From: "cris0027" <cris0027 at umn.edu> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 5:29 PM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Floppy based firewall > I've been planning to set up a firewall, and was about to try using > Smoothwall. Thanks for pointing out those weak points out before I found > them the hard way. Smoothwall is a nice looking product, but I think I'd > at least like complete port coverage. There are win-do'hs machines on the > other side, and I'd really like to avoid that kind of thing. Can we say, > "trojan bait"? > > I've regretably been out of the Linux fold for a while, so all of my Linux > kung-fu has become rather rusty. My old firewall/IP-masq box, while > theoretically still operational, is out of date and (at the moment) I can't > remember how the heck it was set up in the first place. I've been avidly > reading this thread (and archived threads), but I haven't been able to come > to any definite conclusions. Can anyone make any glowing recommendations > about the security, ease, magical properties, efficiency, and/or mojo of > any particular option? Smoothwall was at the top of my list, but now I'm > not so sure. Also on the list are FreeSCO and Coyote, but again, I'm at a > loss to choose one. Can anyone help guide my re-education? > > Thanks, > --Lawrence Crisp > cris0027 at tc.umn.edu