From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 5 12:50:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9774916A4CE for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2003 12:50:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx.sat.corp.rackspace.com (mx.sat.corp.rackspace.com [64.39.1.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7E1143FA3 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2003 12:50:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from amason@rackspace.com) Received: from mail.rackspace.com (mail.rackspace.com [64.39.2.181]) hA5KmUZ9011482 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2003 14:48:30 -0600 Received: from [10.1.101.24] (office101-24.sat.rackspace.com [10.1.101.24]) by mail.rackspace.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hA5KoE32024663 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2003 14:50:14 -0600 From: Art Mason To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20031105180158.48435.qmail@web60408.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20031105180158.48435.qmail@web60408.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Rackspace Managed Hosting Message-Id: <1068065410.305.10.camel@mizar.rackspace.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 14:50:10 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner: Dd6rvCg9: Found to be clean Subject: Re: FBSD All-in-one security box? X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Security issues [members-only posting] List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 20:50:18 -0000 Hmmm, sounds a lot like Mandrake MNF (http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/mnf) hopes to become. . I'd love to see something like this (PHP and PERL frontend) for a FreeBSD-based wonder box. I wonder if one could take the m0n0wall project (http://m0n0.ch/wall/) and expand it for a full blown network appliance. On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 12:01, twig les wrote: > Hey *, as I sweat through another day of crap dealing with an > all-in-one box (firewall, IDS, AVS, report generating, soon to > be a VPN server) I'm wondering if someone has started a project > to put some freeware together in some semblance of sanity on a > FBSD box. There's basically nothing that this box does that a > combo of IPFW (or another bsd filter), snort, ntop, and some > other freeware stuff can't do. > > As usual the problems I face stem from feature-overload, since > the vendor has one crappy feature and then adds another crappy > feature instead of fixing the first one so they can market the > box better. I'm thinking that since the tools I mentioned are > already fairly mature and robust, all that's needed is some > sewing and, when core functionality is achieved, a GUI. > > This sounds like a fun project IMO, but I don't want to > re-invent the wheel, especially when I have no spare time. > > ===== > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Get a taste of Religion ... eat a priest! > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard > http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Art Mason Rackspace Managed Hosting amason@rackspace.com