[Gllug] Opinions on Smoothwall and other firewalls

[Ian Northeast]

Simon Stewart wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 09:03:32PM +0100, Ian Northeast wrote:
> 
> > So to get a decent firewall and have my ISDN link using compression and
> > BoD, which is what I want, it seems to me that I have to chain two
> > machines together - an ISDN router using Linux 2.2 and an OBSD firewall
> > with two ethernet cards. This will work of course but it seems a little
> > heavy. The price of ethernet cards is not a concern as I can use 10Mb
> > ones which people throw away, it's just that 2 PCs occupy twice the
> > space and space is tight as there are a lot of PCs round here.=20
> >
> > Aside from buying a router, which goes against the grain for a job which
> > a cheap/free PC can do, or coding an LZS module for i4b or doing some
> > work on the i4l one in 2.4, which I think is beyond my skill (I am not a
> > really a programmer, I can knock out the odd bit of C but I'm a sysadmin
> > by trade), can anyone think of a better solution?=20
> 
> Well, if you wanted to do it all on one box, you could think about
> running OpenBSD in VMWare, and not configure the outgoing NIC in
> Linux. I suspect that this solution could fit neatly into the
> pigeon-hole of "slightly braindead", but *shrugs* it could be done on
> one box....

I had thought of that too:) However, I don't think VMWare will run too
well on the P120 I intend for the job.

Regards, Ian

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