Ice blue dragon Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Hi my interest in information security is pretty new so I am a big neophyte.So tolerate please lack of knowledge. So i was thinking if it is possible to make a home made hardware firewall? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infiltrator Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Yes, you can build your own firewall hardware with one of the these Linux Firewall distros. 1) Smoothwall 2) PSfense 3) Untangle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianzimm Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 4) monowall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fasckira Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 Anything in particular you're wanting to protect or just casual interest? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tru-Tek Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 There is also ClearOS. That is a great one. If you can get a hold of an old Watchguard Core you can mod it for mono wall. I am sure Ebay has some for sale. http://m0n0.ch/wall/tools/How%20to%20load%20m0n0wall%20onto%20a%20WatchGuard%20Firebox%20x500.pdf Hi my interest in information security is pretty new so I am a big neophyte.So tolerate please lack of knowledge. So i was thinking if it is possible to make a home made hardware firewall? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sorrow Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 (edited) I favor pfSense. It has a nice GUI and some great functions. Try them all out though. Best way to develop preference is from experience. Edited September 19, 2011 by The Sorrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
int0x80 Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 Hi my interest in information security is pretty new so I am a big neophyte.So tolerate please lack of knowledge. So i was thinking if it is possible to make a home made hardware firewall? This was one of the first things I did with FOSS. You will learn more if you build it yourself; e.g. don't bother with niche distros. Just grab a Debian or OpenBSD ISO and google for building a firewall. I hardly do any network stuff now but to this day my ebtables, iptables, and pf knowledge still serve me well. One other note, Linux and BSD can perform firewall and router functionality for a residential connection just fine on super old hardware. No need to go out and buy new equipment in this case; either re-purpose one of your old boxes or grab one from a friend/craigslist. In school, our house had five CS majors and our firewall/router was a 90MHz Pentium box with OpenBSD. So grab an ISO and start googling :] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParMan Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 I have used pfsence for almost 2 years now. i have never had any major issues with it. works great. there are a lot of tutorials/wikis/forums out there to help with it too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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