[OPLINTECH] Linux Firewall/VPN

[Eric Webster]

No kidding, I wasn't aware. Thanks for the history lesson, that's pretty
neat!

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Eric Webster
Network Administrator
Worthington Libraries
http://www.worthingtonlibraries.org/
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Will [mailto:willda at oplin.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 10:58 AM
To: Eric Webster
Cc: oplintech at oplin.org
Subject: Re: [OPLINTECH] Linux Firewall/VPN

Shorewall is a fork of Smoothwall. Several years ago the developers had
a little disagreement (as I understand it) and went their separate ways.
I think that they are both pretty much the same as of v2. I haven't
checked Shorewall since v3 of Smoothwall has come out though.
Dan Will


On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 10:42 -0500, Eric Webster wrote:
> I've always liked Shorewall for a firewall: http://www.shorewall.net/
> 
> It doesn't provide a web gui like Smoothwall I guess. It's just a tool
for configuring the built in functions of the kernel itself so you
aren't really using any additional software when it comes down to it. 
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> Eric Webster
> Network Administrator
> Worthington Libraries
> http://www.worthingtonlibraries.org/
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: oplintech-bounces at oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces at oplin.org]
On Behalf Of Dan Will
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 10:13 AM
> To: Kyle Ledford
> Cc: oplintech at oplin.org
> Subject: Re: [OPLINTECH] Linux Firewall/VPN
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> Kyle,
>    Smoothwall linux <http://smoothwall.org>  has those abilities. We
have been using it for just the firewall (mostly). I have setup up the
VPN for outside use and tested it. It works well.
> 
> Dan Will
> Meigs Co. Dist. Public Library
> 740.992.5813
> willda at oplin.org
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> On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 09:37 -0500, Kyle Ledford wrote: 
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> 	I am looking for a  VPN solution that I can run clients from
windows machines and connect to a VPN. Cost is a key factor here so I am
looking for some open source linux firewall/VPN installs. Plus as usual
Linux distributions do not usually require the resources of other
solutions. I really do not need the extra firewall application but need
the VPN and they usually go hand in hand..  Is anyone out there using
this type of configuration?
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