[Sussex] Linux Firewall on a 50mg CD

[Geoff Teale]

John Crowhurst wrote:
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> I think there would be a problem here, if you want to customise the
> settings of the firewall - you would have to rebuild the CD 
> every time.
> (assuming you don't have a hard drive in the firewall for 
> extra security)


Agreed. However Mark said at the outset that he wanted to store the setup on
a floppy disk.

> Floppy based firewalls have the distinct advantage that the 
> boot floppy
> can be removed, customised and the machine rebooted into 
> those changes.
<snip>

Yes - this is a fair point.  

I did see some project to provide tools for people to build their own custom
distros - don't remeber the name, but I imagine this would be too basic for
these purposes.

-- 
GJT
geoff.teale at claybrook.co.uk




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