Re: OT: Firewall

[Simon McCartney <s.mccartney@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 02:54:35PM +0000, steve.crick@xxxxxxx wrote:
> What is the easiest, most efficient and cheapest way of setting up a
> firewall for my home.
>
> I have an available PC with an ISDN TA and a Ethernet card.
>
> I would assume that the PC (firewall) would dial (and drop!) on
demand, so
> it could run headless without human intervention.

The cheapest & most flexible way is to use Linux (or one of the
*BSD's),
there are plenty of Linux distributions that are aimed at firewall use, eg
SmoothWall (http://www.smoothwall.org).  I myself
just use a RedHat 6.2 and
a crude but effective ipmasq setup.

HTH,

Simon.