Bootable CD w/OS for firewall

[jjohnson at sunrise-linux.com (miah)]

doesnt smoothwall do all this already?

-miah

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 11:50:29AM -0400, Bob George wrote:
> Don Levey wrote:
> >[...] I wand to create a bootable "live CD" for my firewall.
> >Basically, I want to keep all the configuration static, and if I need
> >to change the rules, I'd burn another CD. Part of the twist is that I
> >want to have a small hard drive around for /var to keep logs, and
> >whatever state info needs to be writable.
> 
> One of my grand, unfinished projects was to have something bootable from
> CF or similar which could be hardware-switched to read-only. A USB
> reader could also store logs and such easily.
> 
> >I've found a few "roll your own" links, but they either don't seem to
> > address what I need, or I don't understand them.  Anyone have any
> >links to a write-up for this sort of thing?
> 
> Are you planning on rolling your own firewall script(s), or are you
> after a solution that has a robust firewall feature included?
> 
> - Bob
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