[CLUE-Tech] Small network security distro recommendations?

[Dave Hahn]

There are some dedicated distributions for firewall/network monitoring - 
if that is *all* the box is going to do, then those would be an 
appropriate choice.  If you want to do some other things, a more general 
distribution like Fedora, Debian, SuSE *once it has been hardened* may 
be a better choice.

It's all about what you want to do.

-d

skipworthy at realivetech.com wrote:

>Hey-
>
>I was on my way to sourcefourge to look for this, but I thought I'd toss it
>out to you guys for your thoughts...
>
>I want to build a firewall/router box, that should also  be able to do
>things like logging and intrusion detection,  email alerts and so on, and
>some other white-hat stuff. I'd like it to be lightweight, but be able to
>optionally run a simple xserver/GUI and a fairly complete set of tools.
>
>I plan on using a P233, with 6G or so of harddrive space and less than 128M
>of RAM
>
>I know this leaves alot of room- it shouldn't be hard to find somehting.
>What I want to know is: what have you guys used for this kind of setup, or
>heard of, that you are impressed with/exciited about?
>
>Glen
>
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