Bootable CD w/OS for firewall

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

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 02:14:06PM -0400, Drew Taylor wrote:
> Eric wrote:
> 
> >--- Bob George <mailings02 at ttlexceeded.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>miah wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>doesnt smoothwall do all this already?
> >>
> >>It certainly does the lightweight firewall portion.
> >>After a quick skim 
> >>of the website, I'm not under the impression it's
> >>meant as "run from CD".
> 
> How does a CD based firewall compare to the various firewalls available 
> for the Linksys hardware (ie. sveasoft's offering)? Is it possible to 
> run smoothwall on a Linksys router? I like the idea of a low-power, 
> fanless machine rather than an full blown PC.

Probably, smoothwall is basically just a minimal linux distro with a
purdy web interface, it shouldn't be too difficult to port it over,
but its something nobody is doing.  making proper firmware for the
linksys is a bit of a pain.

-miah