An old PC would be the perfect application for this. Its every thing you want and more.
http://www.ossim.net/
Old PC For a Firewall - Suggestions
Hello,
Today my CIT Teacher proposed a project for extra credit, He said that he would like to have a firewall that was built out of a older PC that we could possible use for a small network. Since i love learning about computer security and all i went ahead and told him that i would give it a try. So i did some google searching and found some info and was off to a good start. I was just thinking that before i got started i would post this and see if anyone had any suggestions that might help me out.
Thanks,
Johnny Boy
An old PC would be the perfect application for this. Its every thing you want and more.
http://www.ossim.net/
Not sure if non-members can read this, pretty sure you can though.
http://www.netstumbler.org/f17/looki...r-setup-23146/
We've just been discussing this the last few days.
Well crap! Guess you can't as a non-member.
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Yeah, Offtopic threads can't be read by non-members.Originally Posted by Barry
Not sure if non-members can read this, pretty sure you can though.
http://www.netstumbler.org/f17/looki...r-setup-23146/
We've just been discussing this the last few days.
Well crap! Guess you can't as a non-member.
A third party security audit is the IT equivalent of a colonoscopy. It's long, intrusive, very uncomfortable, and when it's done, you'll have seen things you really didn't want to see, and you'll never forget that you've had one.
Endian and SmoothWall are the ones I use when making a firewall out of an old PC. Don't forget your 2 ethernet cards :P
-Stephen
If you really want to impress the teacher setup an OpenBSD fw with PF.
dd if=/dev/swc666 of=/dev/wyze
Smoothwall is very easy to install and setup. You need two cards.
http://www.smoothwall.org
IPCop is a offshoot of smoothwall it is also very easy to use.
http://www.ipcop.org
For more generic info on "which one to choose" have a look at
http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=firewalls
good luck.
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If you're running Ubuntu, or BT or any other *nix distro, do you even need a firewall?
Just wondering.
A third party security audit is the IT equivalent of a colonoscopy. It's long, intrusive, very uncomfortable, and when it's done, you'll have seen things you really didn't want to see, and you'll never forget that you've had one.
Smoothwall gets my vote, too. I've used it on a couple of firewalls. It has a lot of features, including traffic logging and graphing, and Snort for an IDS.
Use two, three, or four NICs depending on if you want things like a wireless on a separate net, or a DMZ.
Thorn
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It can't hurt and as the OP said it was for extra credit.
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