[wellylug] Layer 7 enabled firewall distro.
David Antliff
david.antliff at gmail.com
Sun Jan 1 16:09:12 NZDT 2006
Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote:
> Smoothwall does not do some of the things I want it to do. I have used
> it in the past but it is very limiting as a firewall distro because of
> it's non-standard scripting.
>
> For instance you cant set "green" or internal network iptables rules
> without serious hackery, and stuffing up the management stuff.
>
> + It does not have the l7 kernel patches... so affraid it's a no go for
> my purposes.
Sorry, I missed the start of this so I'm not sure what your exact
requirements are, but I have found Devil Linux (w/ fwbuilder to
configure iptables) to be an excellent firewall for my needs. I don't
know about the kernel patches but you could easily roll your own.
--
David.
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