Bootable CD w/OS for firewall

Drew Taylor drew at drewtaylor.com
Wed Sep 15 14:12:01 EDT 2004


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.

Drew
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