[Gllug] Firewall setup Routing

Christopher Hunter chrisehunter at blueyonder.co.uk
Tue Jul 6 22:20:29 UTC 2004


On Tuesday 06 Jul 2004 4:22 pm, Simon Perry wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like suggestions of a firewall package to handle the following
> or an idea of the complexity of rolling my own.
>
> Router 1                           ETH ADSL( internet static IP)
> (leased line                                    |
> service DHCP)                              |
>
> ##################################
> #                                                                #
> #                Firewall box?                            #
> #                                                                #
> ##################################
>
>                 Local area network 20 clients
>
> An application used by all the clients will need to communicate via
> calls to a single IP address with router 1 all other traffic will go
> over the ADSL, all connections/routing will need NAT'ing. Ideally I
> would like a package that has regular security patches so I don't have
> to continually monitor, configure and update the software myself.
>
> TIA
>
> Simon

Looks like it should be a "Smoothwall" box with three NICs in it.  The 
commercial "Smoothwall" is pretty cheap (less than £200), reliable and easy 
to configure.

Chris

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