On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 13:20 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 21:44 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > Rather than "roll your own", you could use one of the purpose-built > > firewall/ > > router Linux distributions. (Such may also exist for (Free|Net|Open)BSD.) > > I've used both IpCop and Smoothwall; both support various kinds of WAN > > links, > > including USB modems: > > > > http://www.ipcop.org/ > > > > http://smoothwall.org/ > > Endian Firewall http://www.efw.it/ is another one based on IP-COP (like > smoothwall). It has a number of features that neither IP-COP or > Smoothwall has, like proxies for mail, sip, ftp (iirc), scanning for > virus/spyware on the web proxy, mailscanning, and a few others. Most of > these are available as IP-COP addons, but the problem is, at least in my > experience, that most of these addons break when you run the IP-COP > updates. > > http://www.closedbsd.org/ > Based on OpenBSD - haven't tried it but it looks nice. > > Hans > >
Fellow, Something I missed... do your Debian box has an ethernet port? I believe your Cable Modem does have an ethernet port as well. If it is so, your just connect them with an cross-over 10BaseT cable, and you deploy your security measures, as well as monitoring and routing issues. Is it possible to do so? I also recommend http://leaf.sourceforge.net/, linux embedded appliance firewall. I can tell you more, but I need to know if it will be usefull. :) Carpe diem. -- Ms. Eng. Fernando Augusto Bender Pesquisador em Controle Automático 51 8401 4413 Use Linux: http://www.debian.org Comer, beber e amar. O resto não vale um níquel. Lord Byron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
