Choosing a CD Firewall Distro

• Devil-Linux (www.devil-linux.org):

  • Good all-around CD boot firewall distro, ~200MB on CD
  • Configuration on floppy/USB Flash-driveUSB
  • One of the easier and more secure distros
  • Can handle both two and three home (NIC) firewall setups
  • Includes DHCP, BIND/DNS caching, VPN, Squid, Apache, NTP, Anti-Spam/Virus
  • Requires a 486/66 processor, 32MB RAM, CD-ROM + floppy/USB drive

• Sentry Firewall CD (www.sentryfirewall.com):

  • Another live CD firewall distro, ~328MB on CD + config floppy
  • .Includes OpenVPN, IPSec/PPTP, Snort, Scanlogd, +common daemons
  • Requires i486 processor, 32-96MB RAM, CD-ROM +floppy

• redWall Firewall (www.redwall-firewall.com):

  • Red Hat 9 based CD firewall distro, ~487MB on CD + floppy/USB
  • SMP support, kudzu, Anti-Spam/Virus, multi-firewall control +
  • Requires P133-300Mhz, 64-128MB+, CD-ROM +flop/USB/HD

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