Has anyone created a firewall (Linux) router with Shorewall that was on a write protected bootable media, floppy or CDROM? -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by Ramblernet''s MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 17:57, Ken wrote:> Has anyone created a firewall (Linux) router with Shorewall that was on > a write protected bootable media, floppy or CDROM?Well, sort of. Due to a hardware error on a hard disk the ext3 root filesystem was remounted in read-only mode. I noticed it because syslog had stopped working in the middle of the night. Linux and shorewall kept running but there was no way of logging (only dmesg showed what was going on). It took a couple of days to get all the software installed on a different system (I did not have the most current backup - that''ll teach me), but the firewall worked fine the whole time. I think if you redirect the logging to another machine, it should be possible. Maybe you could even boot as a diskless client from another machine. Best Regards, Uwe Behle
Ken wrote:> Has anyone created a firewall (Linux) router with Shorewall that was on > a write protected bootable media, floppy or CDROM? >You might check out LEAF (http://leaf.sf.net) -- The Bering-uClibc variety has instructions for intallation on CF, CDROM, HD or floppy. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ teastep@shorewall.net
Redwall uses Shorewall. http://www.redwall-firewall.com/tiki-index.php Configurations can be saved to removable media, default a floppy. n Wed, 2004-08-04 at 16:57, Ken wrote:> Has anyone created a firewall (Linux) router with Shorewall that was on > a write protected bootable media, floppy or CDROM?
I''ve used Sentry Firewall (www.sentryfirewall.com) and it comes with Shorewall installed. I had to do a few tricks to get it to work on startup, if you want more info let me know. Like some of the others this is a cd that you configure with a floppy. Good Luck, Dave King www.thesecure.net Ken wrote:>Has anyone created a firewall (Linux) router with Shorewall that was on >a write protected bootable media, floppy or CDROM? > > >