[ale] OT: Firewall purchase

[Dow Hurst]

Dow Hurst wrote:

> David Hamm wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm looking for a firewall that supports IPSEC for VPN and OSPF. 
>> Netgear has
>> stuff I found attractive but with no OSPF support. Moving parts (ie 
>> fans and
>> disks ), and user licensing are out. Anyone have any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> _______________________________________________
>> Ale mailing list
>> Ale at ale.org
>> http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>>
>
> Look at building it yourself using Slackware, Bob Toxen's second 
> edition of his book, and a Epia based fanless supersmall machine with 
> dual builtin NICs.  His book has drop in iptables rules that are 
> excellent.  Once you get that far then going thru the IPSEC Howto is 
> not too difficult.  Just involves a kernel module compile and insertion.
>
>
>
> Links:
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/VPN-Masquerade-HOWTO.html#toc3
> http://www.impsec.org/linux/masquerade/ip_masq_vpn.html
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html 
> (this is one idea)
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>
Oh, I just realized my booboo.  Use Bob's first edition and the ipchains 
ruleset since I am not sure of the iptables and IPSEC module 
compatibility.  But the Epia M based motherboard has a dual NIC version 
IIRC.
Dow