I want to setup a firewall for my home LAN. I will have 5 - 10 PC's behind it. It will be running on a PPro 233 w/ 80mb RAM, and 2 Intel 100mb NIC's. I want a lot of features. I want a lot of features:
Security, Security, Security SSH Daemon NAT (Masq) Port Forwarding Graphical (web based ?) Network Analysis PPPoE support VPN support Convenient Method of Configuration (Web based, GUI based ?) I would also like it to be fairly upgradable. I love APT-GET, and would love to have the core of this firewall be Debian so that I can do my updates with this method. I also would like to experiment with the CISH (Cisco simulated) shell provided by the Linux Router Project. What is the best apporach to creating this Firewall. Should I start with my own basic install of Debian and build from there ? Is there a floppy or CD based image worth trying that is based on Debian ? ben
