[Gllug] Opinions on Smoothwall and other firewalls

[Paul Nasrat]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 02:21:47PM +0100, John Edwards wrote:

> Well the advantage of a specialist distribution (Smoothwall, LRP, etc) is 
> that if they are done right then you don't have to spend a lot of time 
> removing or disabling potentially dangerous packages. RedHat, Mandrake and 
> SuSE are designed as full server or workstation systems and install a whole 

Yeah, but otoh customising the RH style installer is fairly easy, you
can create an edited comps file for the current setup and also make new
installation classes for it.  It wouldn't be hard to create a very
stripped install.  I'm pretty sure you can do the same in Debian but
haven't played with the installer.

Creating a firewall class would be trivial.  Although I guess you'd have
to hack the post-install phase or the default rpms for some out of the
rpm based functionality.  I guess in debian you could use debconf
custimisations to do this.

Paul

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