Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 05:44:57 -0600 From: "G. Panula" <greg.panula@lexisnexis.com> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD All-in-one security box? Message-ID: <3FAA3439.5040602@lexisnexis.com> In-Reply-To: <20031105180158.48435.qmail@web60408.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20031105180158.48435.qmail@web60408.mail.yahoo.com>
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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. > http://www.netboz.net/ is a self-contained bootable cd that provides firewall, nat, dns, dhcp and vpn(in beta currently). Just need a floppy to write configs to and you're off&running. yup, its fbsd based. I've only played with it a little, but it was solid enough. I think it is just missing IDS&AVS from your wishlist above. Online demo available at: https://demo.netboz.net/ greg
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