[Gllug] Security from scratch or just stick with Astaro?

[John Edwards]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 10:27:51AM +0100, Simon Perry wrote:
> Chris Bell wrote:
>> On Tue 08 Apr, Justin Perreault wrote:
>
>>> The only files I am looking to have updated are virus and intrusion
>>> profiles for things like snort as well as security patches. Astaro does
>>> this and helps me feel comfortable about not upgrading the system every
>>> year.
>
> You might want to take a look at monowall [0] it is designed for 
> embedded systems but can be run on standard i386 hardware either from 
> disk, compact flash or even CD and floppy. Feature set is comparable to 
> that of IPcop.

I was going to mention m0n0wall, but decided not to as it is aimed at
embedded systems and the original poster wanted to use a full PC. It
doesn't contain the extra services such as Snort and Squid, but does
more support for networking systems such as VLAN, SNMP and wireless

And it based on FreeBSD, not Linux, so if you want to understand the
nuts and bolts it will take some more learning.


> IIRC IPcop's development plan is to use monowall as it's 
> future base distribution.

Where did you hear?

It's *completely* wrong, they are still using Linux and LFS 
(Linux From Scratch) as the build system for the 2.0 version.


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