[Nottingham] setting up firewall for broadband

[Lee]

Hmm, I'd avoid usb if possible, and go for an cable modem with an
ethernet port. I had to reprogram my mac address on my linux firewall's
network card,
just because I could'nt face anymore time on NTL 'hold' to get it
changed (and then for the guy/girl/thing at the other end to type my mac
address wrong), but it rather trivial operation. But apart from that it
was fairly painless with smoothwall, and I've had good result, I've had
good results with IPcop too..... not checked out astro security linux,
too many distro's so little time :-).

You can get usb working, if you really really want, but you may want to
have real fun later, like sticking dedicated IDS system on the outside
of your firewall for instance, I'm not heard of any passive usb sniffers
;-)..... ;-)....
..

Laters,
Lee 
(snort,snort, chortle, chortle)

On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 00:25, Godfrey Nix wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Finally I am getting a broadband connection from NTL (next week). But I need 
> some advice on setting up a firewall. I have built a machine with ethernet 
> for my LAN, and USB for the broadband (that is what I am told is their 
> preferred connection). But I find my copy of SmoothWall 0.9.5LF from a 
> coverdisk does not support USB devices, unly a serial dial-up modem. That is 
> no use on broadband.
> 
> Is there some other Firewall I can use on the machine (486, 32Mb with 460Mb 
> disk) or can I get SmoothWall to work with USB? How do I configure the USB 
> for the cable modem?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Godfrey
> 
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