water cooler :: Linux Firewall
I used to use Freesco and it was quite cool for a floppy firewall, but after I lost the third power supply in my old Pentium 66 w/ 24MB Ram and I couldn't get the next version of Freesco to work for me I looked around and found IPCop. WOW!!! I read about it's rift and fork from Smoothwall and understood their frustrations. I read deeply about it and liked their firm foundations and goals. It's been running my broadband connection for about a year or almost 1 1/2 yrs now. I've used the 1.3.0 stable since it came out last April. It's easy to patch, easy to maintain and has lots of features. Now I run on a P-166 w/ 64MB ram and a 2GB drive and it's overkill. I just need to pull out an old ISA 10 Mb NIC and replace it w/ a 100Mb so that I have 2 100Mb in there. I also just put in a UPS so the firewall doesn't go down when the power flickers.
I figured out my powersupply problem. I had the box too close to the ceiling in my basement and it was overheating.
Ok. Is there just a simple way to block ips? Incoming AND outgoing connections.
hey dudes, any mydsl extensions for these ?
Yes please. =)
[LegitimateBump]Smoothwall or iptables.dsl and rc.firewall.dsl ?[/LegitimateBump] 
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