[SunHELP] Sorta OT: Good Firewall

[Dan Cuthbert]

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Okay being biased coz im the Security head , but have a look at
Smoothwall (http://www.smoothwall.org)
it runs like a beast on a 486 and is SO easy to install and really
does the job

If you have any Q's just mail!

Dan

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From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Brian Hechinger
Sent: 26 January 2001 19:54
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Sorta OT: Good Firewall


> Can anyone recommend a good firewall?  Everyone at work insists I
> should get a firewall
> for home use, but I still need telnet and ftp access until I can
> get a copy of ssh that works.
> I think I was using 1.2.7 before.
> 
> I was planning on running on a 486DX4-75 with 24MB of RAM, as I
> didn't think a firewall should need more.  Or would it?

i've been running IPFILTER under Solaris 8 on a SPARCstation 5 for
months now
and it has been fantastic.  70Mhz microSPARC-II CPU, 160MB RAM.  it
doesn't
need that much memory, the sparc5 used to be my workstation, and i
don't 
have anything else that can use that goofy memory, so it stays where
it is.

as far as interfaces go:

le0: hooked to an ADSL bridge (1.5Mbps/384Kpbs)
le1: hooked to a 100/10 switch (soon to be swapped out with an hme
card)
le2: hooked to an AUI MAU
nf0: SAS connected to a 3Com LinkBuilder FDDI Hub

there is a fair amount of traffic passing between these four
networks, and the
sparc5 does a fine job keeping it flowing.  that may change after i
get the
hme card installed and we try moving 100Mbps across this thing.  but
it works
fine as is.

- -brian
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