Re: [SLE] NOVELL: Cool Solutions: SUSE Router How-To

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To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 13:31:31 +0100

On Saturday 27 August 2005 13:11, Sid Boyce wrote:

>
> I'm perplexed at the lack of response to me suggesting Astaro, it's
> free, you don't have to believe the advertising blurb, you can go
> through a demo online that is real-world. It supports the addition of
> WIFI. It's all chrooted so there is no way of manually altering, copying
> or installing anything as it says you don't have a hard drive or a
> floppy when you try. The config can be backed up to the box you are
> using to admin the firewall.
> The online updates are quite regular, no time limits on the software and
> it's painless to upgrade, besides being arguably the best darn Linux
> firewall. There is a quite active forum. The only problem I had with it
> was with ssh from the outside, but that was due to my lack of
> understanding of NAT rules, I just get confused as to what is source and
> what is destination, but the forum helped me out.
> I was looking for a way I could suggest to Astaro they include VPN,
> anti-virus and Content filtering in the free version or to somehow
> produce a cheap version, may be they could allow the full version for
> free personal use as the downloaded version has to be paid for if used
> by companies, which really means they get a license that turns on the
> full version functionality.
> As with many Linux based stuff like TomTom GPS's and some firewalls that
> will only work with Windows, their on-line seminar needs IE when I tried
> attending online, IE under crossover office also didn't work, so I gave
> them serious grief over that, they kindly sent me a PDF version of it.

I know it's not Linux, but BSD, however I've found M0n0wall to be a superb
firewall, it's small enough to boot from compact flash, supports VPNs,
traffic Shaping, captive portal and will also act as a wireless access point.
It's ideal for running headless on standard PC hardware or dedicated
appliances like the Soekris and Wrap boards.

http://m0n0.ch/wall

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