[olug] Firewall + NAS Backup

[Travis Owens]

I would recommend a different distro for your firewall box. Unbuntu is
a great distro for a desktop, but there are many other distros that
are designed for specific services: firewalls, etc.

http://www.smoothwall.org/

It's a great distro, designed with excellent flexibility and a pretty
good interface. The installation is pretty easy too.

HTH,
Travis

On 3/5/07, Bradley Arth <brad.arth at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have never used any form of firewall at home, unless you count my little
> router. At any rate, I have been getting a lot of ports being scanned
> recently and thought I would grab an old desktop and put linux on it and
> have it be my firewall/router. I currently am most familiar with Ubuntu and
> figured I would stick with it if possible. Can anyone recommend a good
> walk-through on setting up a firewall for your home network.
>
> The other box I'm wanting to put together is a NAS/Backup solution for my
> home. Again I have an old desktop that I plan on using and figured I would
> put on somthing like FreeNAS and use that as place to backup my files. From
> the best of my knowledge FreeNAS is a BSD distro, is there a better way to
> go using linux. I thought about using the Ubuntu server install and
> installing samba and going from there. Any suggestions.
>
> Thanks...
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