[nmglug] firewall distribution

[Andres Paglayan]

On Feb 14, 2008, at 9:14 AM, jason schaefer wrote:

> IpCop looks promising but I would like to avoid the third party plugin
> hell, although I know it can have advantages. I have been looking at
> endian -> http://www.endian.com/en/community/
>
> anyone use it? Andres, how do you think this compares to ipcop?

I never used endian, so mine won't be an educated opinion,
I am using ipcop since about two years,
last reboot was a year ago, for configuration reasons,

it is extremely flexible,
I have like 4 custom iptables script lines that handles the traffic I  
cannot from the visual interface,

Installing the plugins is really straight forward, not a problem

The only downside if any, is that you have to install the openVPN  
clients on the windows machines,
it gets a little trickier on vista clients 'cause you need to be real  
root, not fake admin,

If you have 5 minutes I can show it to you in action.

>
>
>
> Andres Paglayan wrote:
>> ipcop is the way to go,
>> some of the features you want are available as plugins,
>> probably you'll want OpenVPN and the snort plugin,
>>
>>
>> On Feb 13, 2008, at 3:17 PM, jason schaefer wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> I am looking for a firewall distribution. Last time I did this was
>>> a few
>>> years back and I used smoothwall and did not like its inflexibility
>>> and
>>> need for endless plugins for added features. Also, I am  
>>> disapointed in
>>> Smoothwall's website and forum. Its very difficult to get quick
>>> answers
>>> and reliable information. It was easy to setup and use though and it
>>> might be better now. Before I go installing different firewall  
>>> distros
>>> and deciding for myself. I wanted to ask people their experience.
>>>
>>> here are some of the features I want:
>>> web-based config
>>> virtual interfaces
>>> vpn
>>> web content filtering
>>> built-in bandwidth graphs
>>> traffic shaping
>>> intrusion detection
>>> hard drive based
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
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