Actually, I decided to go with a Linux based appliance Firewall...
http://www.smoothwall.org It's free, it's small, it'll do either PPP,
ISDN, or Network firewalling (T1, T3, External ISDN, External Cablemodem,
etc.), and has the ability to even have a DMZ. Works great on
throw-away quality hardware (386 with 80 MB harddrive, for example).
It also only took 10 minutes (literally) to set up from starting
the install to using it as my new DHCP server and firewall. It's
even all controlled via a browser window on your regular machine;
after the install, you can literally walk unplug everything except
the power and Cat5s (and keyboard, if it's going to require it to boot)
and store it out of the way.
I enjoy the fact that I don't have to worry about whether I get
compromised; the machine is near bulletproof, and even if it DOES
get compromised it's 1) not an important machine 2) able to be
resetup in 10 minutes from scratch, to remove everything the
hacker has done.
Bill Ward
-----Original Message-----
From: Ashley M. Kirchner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 3:49 PM
To: Red Hat Mailing List
Subject: System (security) monitors?
What are the best (or perhaps the most common) firewall (and
otherwise other types of servers) programs that people are using to
monitor things like portscans, sniffers and what not. Basically stuff
to detect malicious attacks, intrusions and what not. Obviously they go
(I assume) hand in hand with a firewall script (setup through
ipchains/iptable or whatever), yes, no?
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