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From: reader@newsguy.com
To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Special firewall for wannabee dmz machine
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 22:14:35 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r6hagkic.fsf@newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.58.0712251639470.21533@mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk

"G.W. Haywood" <ged@jubileegroup.co.uk> writes:

>> I'm setting up a gentoo linux machine who's sole purpose is to get
>> traffic coming to a NETGEAR router upstream [snip]
>
> Why not install a purpose-made firewall distro, and maybe some addons?
> You'll get logs, a GUI, graphs, all kinds of fun stuff.

I'm not sure what you are talking about there.  Do you mean something
like the `Soekris' board running openbsd?

Can you name a few of these purpose built distros?


  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-26  4:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-25 13:53 Special firewall for wannabee dmz machine reader
2007-12-25 16:47 ` G.W. Haywood
2007-12-26  4:14   ` reader [this message]
2007-12-26 16:24     ` G.W. Haywood
2007-12-26 17:10       ` reader

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