The best newbie friendly bootable CD router firewall softwar






http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major

Lists these:


Top 5 Firewalls
1. Devil-Linux
2. Astaro Security Linux
3. ClarkConnect Broadband Gateway
4. SmoothWall Express
5. IPCop


but somehow I bet there are better.

I know this is going to sound like a dumbass newbie question to a lot of you, but for the love of God, if these are top firewall distrobutions, why doesn't Devil-Linux

http://www.devil-linux.us/pub/devel/sources/1.3/ just a have an *.iso file for the whole package so people can burn it on to a CD and run it on another old box with bunch of network cards to make a router?


If someone here who tinkers around with old machines, such as people who work in places like here .

http://www.freegeek.org . . and other recycling centers

who habitually tests these distributions out, especially if they have the versatility of a Knoppix Autodetect engine. . . I would love to hear from you.

linuxquestions.org/rules.php should include 'no yelling in thread titles'

The title is in mostly lower case letters now. Sorry about that.

Thank you, whoever designed this forum software, that we can edit the titles

at least I thought we could

... because you need to configure the whole thing before you burn it on to the cd?

to some people that would be too much work to try and figure out without specific instructions from the people they ask in here . . .

some just want the most amount of junker old machines

converted into the most efficient packet sniffing gateway routers as possible

in the least amount of time . . .

but are kind of confused where to start,

that's why they ask in here.

IPCop was pretty good when I used it; it was certainly a lot better than Smoothwall, but that was two years ago. Recently Astaro has recieved a lot of really good press. I don't know if they still have the totally free version, but it's probably worth checking out.

I guess I'm one of those exceptional people who prefer to have the entire package at once so that it can be configured however one may need it later.