[CLUE-Tech] Best distro for Linux firewall duties

[Chris N. Brown]

Hi Russell,

I'm using Mandrake's Multiple Network Firewall at home for this.  I am running 
it on an old Compaq Deskpro which has a Pentium 166mHz in it, with 128MB of 
RAM and a 4GB hard drive.  It was very easy to setup and I am running the 
services on it you describe below (all of which have the benefit of being 
setup from a nice web-based administration tool).

Also, FWIW, the only issue that I had with this setup was some sort of 
conflict between Compaq's BOIS settings for powersave and APM in the linux 
kernel.  This was quickly solved by passing a parameter to turn APM off when 
booting.

HTH,
Chris


On Monday 17 March 2003 09:27 am, Russell Glissmann's keyboard spoke thus:
> Hello;
> Since there has been such a discussion on various distros, can someone
> suggest one that is particularly suited for security duties.  By
> security I'm looking for firewall, VPN, NAT, and DHCP possibly.  I
> looking to put this on an old system, probably only Pentium 200, or
> maybe slightly better.  I realize all distros have this capability, but
> I have seen that there are some designed from the outset to be just for
> firewalls, rather than server or desktop solutions.
> Obviously if one of the standard can be configured to meet my
> requirements, that is not a problem.  I have played with RH 7.3, but
> there is just too much other crap to comes with it to be truly secure.
>
> Thanks!

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