[Herefordshire] Firewall & router on Live CD

[Mark Broadbent]

Hi there,

I think you named one good reason for live based firewalls, noise or the
lack of it.  Also I'd of thought they have slight edge in terms of
security (maybe, probably ;).  The reason I say that is all filesystems
will be mount read-only and so limit the impact of any attack, plus
simply rebooting will restore the firewall to full working order in the
event of a compromise.

Thanks
Mark

[Andrew - any chance we could have some line breaks in your mail please ;) ]

Andrew Hodgson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was speaking to a friend of mine last night, who has just configured Smoothwall on a flash based IDE device - the PC runs with no HDD, and runs with only a PSU and processor fan.  As a result it is very silent, and quite quick.  I never see the point in running a firewall from a live CD unless you don't have a hdd and want to boot from CD each time you restart - a number of these allow saving of data to floppy disk, but the bootup time of these is quite slow, which is not good if the system goes down and you need the connection up quickly.
> 
> Just my thoughts of course...
> Andrew.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk on behalf of David Shorthouse
> Sent: Mon 11/04/2005 23:48
> To: herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: [Herefordshire] Firewall & router on Live CD
>  
> someone was asking about a firewall or router the other day I am testing
> this out... very good doesn't write to the PC...
> 
> Linux LiveCD Router supports all ADSL modems that are connected through an
> ethernet card, as well as PPPoE modems. In addition the USB modems Alcatel
> SpeedTouch and Conexant AccessRunner are supported.
> 
> looks good you have to go to the website to read the instructions i think
> 
> http://www.wifi.com.ar/english/doc/README.txt.html
> 
> dave
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Shorthouse [mailto:kungfu at globalnet.co.uk]
> Sent: 11 April 2005 6:32 PM
> To: herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: Who Wants a laugh
> 
> 
> Ok I have now come to the conclusion that microsoft are a pain in the
> @rse...
> 
> Sorry just had to get that out....
> 
> As you may have gathered I had some issues with my server machine..(dont fix
> what isnt broke)great motto that....
> 
> Anyway... I formatted the c drive on my win2k server machine reinstall win2k
> no problem tried to install sP4 corrupt file.... ok I thought I will just
> install a firewall & download SP4... no firewall software.. 5 times I ended
> up formatting & reinstalling the os before I managed to download a firewall
> & SP4..
> 
> Ok... where is this going. I run 4 websites on my server machine 1 of these
> has a forum for the counterstrike clan im in. I've had it with windows &
> want to put it on my Linux machine but don't really have any idea how to
> setup 4 apache servers... (quite easy in windows.)
> 
> 1.Things I am worried about I have broadband 1m - using Alcatel usb modem
> fish thing... when I tried the live version of SUSE9.2 It wouldn't let me do
> the equivalent of DUN... Is this easy to setup????
> 
> 2. If It Is quite easy can I make the machine a gateway like my server
> machine at the moment..( I assume I will have to edit some file to make my
> machine have my gateway IP ADDRESS???
> 
> 3. I love computers....
> 
> P.S thanks everyone who replied to my last query regarding installing my new
> drive.... After taking out the drive & running in failsafe mode. Linux asked
> to I want to remove the drive usr to which I said yes.. I removed the link &
> then fixed its self.....
> 
> Thanks again
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
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