Hello,
I've been testing out a couple of the easy to setup firewall solutions. ClarkConnect is the best one I've come across so far however I have one problem, you can't install your own programs. Is there any other distro that would be as easy to setup and have a nice web based configuration but also allow you to install your own programs from source? Any info or suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks,
RS

Not sure if it comes with gcc etc, but have you tried Endian firewall?

I'll have to give it a try, I've never heard of it before. I just don't understand why something like ClarkConnect wouldn't come with GCC, etc. But I'll download that now and check it out. Any other suggestions welcome.

Just wanted to let everyone know that Endian didn't work for what I wanted but I did find out that you could get everything needed on ClarkConnect to install whatever packages you want from source by simply running a few commands. Here they are for anyone else who may be looking to do just this:
apt-get update
apt-get install cc-devel kernel-devel kernel-sourcecode

Gateway distros similiar to Clarkconnect:

IPCop
Smoothwall

Interesting, I never realized ClarkConnect was Debian based.. good to know.

Clark 4.1 is not Debian based. Not even close.

# uname -a
Linux gateway.clarkconnect.lan 2.6.9-42.cc #1 Wed Sep 13 19:47:22 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

# rpm -qa | grep -i kernel
kernel-2.6.9-42.cc

# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 4.4 (Final)

In fact, installing gcc here would really be a trivial matter, but firewall distros generally shy away from providing a toolchain on the firewall as it is considered a severe security risk, if someone roots the box they have everything they need to make rootkits onsite, or custom rootkit modules for the kernel, etc.

ahh apt4rpm then... the use of apt to update the system threw me off..