[Gllug] Linux Firewall on a Laptop

[Tethys]

Ian Northeast writes:

>> I want to use it to replace my current IPCop system, because IPCop
>> doesn't support PCMCIA.
>
>Well this may be heretical but I would use OpenBSD. In fact I do, on a
>similar spec laptop. Mine has rather more disk, but I have a whole load
>of X client and gtk+ stuff installed so I can run ethereal. It's not
>strictly needed, it's just easier to interpret the output than tcpdump.

I have a similar setup, but don't have X installed on my BSD box. If I
need to look at huge amounts of tcpdump data, then I use "tcpdump -w",
to write the raw data to a file, which I look at in ethereal on one of
my Linux boxen.

Tet

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