[GRLUG] Firewall Distro

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 11:00 -0400, Ben Rousch wrote:
> I'm running an ancient version of Smoothwall and it's really starting
> to show its age. What firewall distro or packages are folks using
> these days? All I use it for is inbound firewall, squid cache and
> transparent proxy, url filter, and dhcp. It sits in front of about 20
> users, so I think the router-based distros would be too small. I need
> some kind of GUI (web or curses), preferably one that doesn't make me
> think too much. If your suggestion is to configure it all on the
> command line, you will not win a cookie.

I just run CentOS on the firewall.  iptables is managed via the awesome
and amazing fwbuilder which lets you build the rules and install them
via SSH.

<http://www.fwbuilder.org/>

FWBuilder supports *everything*.


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