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View Poll Results: Linux router/firewall Which distro would you choose
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PF SENSE
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M0nowall
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smoothwall
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other (please specify
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12-28-2007, 04:08 PM
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Member
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Ohio
Distribution: Ubuntu 12.04
Posts: 315
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Linux router/firewall
I am thinking about getting rid of my sonicwall firewall and am looking at different distros to see what is easiest to configure
Here is what i am running at home.
FTP Server
WWW server
File Server
Possible Countersrike and Halo Server
I have 2 different internet connections both with static ips.
i should add specs for pc in case anyone wants to know
amd 750 mhz
784 mb of ram
40 gb hdd.
Which distro would you use.
Last edited by jag2000; 12-28-2007 at 04:17 PM.
Reason: pc specs
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12-29-2007, 10:04 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Seymour, Indiana
Distribution: Distribution: RHEL 5 with Pieces of this and that.
Kernel 2.6.23.1, KDE 3.5.8 and KDE 4.0 beta, Plu
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I choose other and just use one of the many firewall scripts already out there. Even going to here and starting with a basic one and fine tuning from an editing tool from there. http://easyfwgen.morizot.net/gen/
I guess I am just old school. hard to get into gui for some things.
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12-29-2007, 12:49 PM
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Registered: Dec 2005
Location: Lawrenceville GA
Distribution: Slackware, CentOS. Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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I've been rolling my own firewall rules for many years, before their were any firewall-specific distros. My last big change was when a converted from ipchains to iptables.
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12-30-2007, 09:54 AM
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Member
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Ohio
Distribution: Ubuntu 12.04
Posts: 315
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i forgot to mention that the box mentioned above is my spare pc i want to use for my gatway/router. i have 4 pc's total at home plus 1 laptop.
1 pc is mine.
1 for wife/kids
1 for ftp/www/file server.
laptop for work
1 spare/sandbox to do whatever i want with.
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01-02-2008, 07:33 PM
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Member
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Ohio
Distribution: Ubuntu 12.04
Posts: 315
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Well since noone posted to this i am running pf sense as a firewall/router.
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01-02-2008, 10:05 PM
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Registered: Jan 2007
Location: PA, USA
Distribution: Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04)
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Voted other. Using Fedora Core 6 and iptables
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