On 2012-09-23, at 23:21, Dan Martin ummar143@shaw.ca wrote:
Yes, a firewall. Not dead simple, but hopefully not rocket science either.
I am in the process of downloading the iso for ubuntu 12.4. If it can handle my hardware, I'll be spending some time with iptables.
On 2012-09-23, at 7:37 PM, Tim Lavoie wrote:
I don't know if it will help with your hardware, but pfSense (FreeBSD-based) is another very nice firewall distro. Smallish download, and simple to configure. _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.mb.ca http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable
pfSense looks good. Documentation a little less clear than IPCop, but good reviews. It will mean learning about pf, and abandoning my experience with iptables.
I am tempted by eBox Platform, since it can function with a full Ubuntu install and can do a lot of things other than firewall. Yeah, I know - doing other things with it makes it less secure, and the whole point is to make the network secure. I will probably use pfSense.
Thanks Tim, for bringing it to my attention.
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