[Gllug] Opinions on Smoothwall and other firewalls

[Simon Stewart]

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....

Cheers,

Simon

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