Re: [Hampshire] Firewall distributions

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Author: WESEMEYER STEPHEN
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Firewall distributions
Hi Ian,


On 14 September 2011 15:09, Ian Park <i.d.c.park@???> wrote:

> I've been running firewall distributions for a good few years now on an
> old Compaq low profile box (Pentium III, 500 MHz) which I bought from
> Jamie's. I started with Smoothwall v2.0, and added extra RAM when I
> upgraded to Smoothwall v3.0; it now has 512MB RAM and a 6.3GB HDD.
> <snip>
> Can anyone suggest an alternative route to where I want to be (i.e. the
> equivalent of IPCop with red, green and blue interfaces), please? I
> suppose in the end I could just stick a wired network card in the IPCop
> box and hook up to an external wireless access point, but that would
> mean using another power socket, and I already use about 18 in this room...
>
> Thanks in advance for any help
>
> Ian
>



I haven't used it at all and hence don't know whether it is any good but
have you looked at:

http://www.ipfire.org

which, I believe, is a fork IPCop and according to

http://www.ipfire.org/about (click on firewall tab)

supports what you want. Furthermore, it looks as if it gets updated
regularly (unlike IPCop):

http://downloads.ipfire.org/older


Cheers,
Steve