446Part IIIChoosing and Installing a Linux DistributionUsing Other (Unable to start debugging on the web server)
446Part IIIChoosing and Installing a Linux DistributionUsing Other Firewall DistributionsCoyote Linux was chosen for this book to illustrate how small, yet still really usefula Linux distribution can be. It also uses the iptables facility, which, once you learnhow to use it, is useful in all recent Linux distributions. There are, however, many other bootable firewalls available today. I strongly recom- mend that you check some of these other distributions if you want more or differentfeatures than those offered by Coyote Linux. The Sentry Firewall CD is a very nice bootable CD firewall. Sentry Firewall CD takesadvantage of the extra space on its CD to provide many extra tools for managing andwatching your network. You can create a virtual private network connection usingFreeS/WAN, manage SNMP services with net-snmp, and set up a variety of servers(using Apache, sendmail, bind, and others). Sentry Firewall supports many different types of IDE and SCSI hardware (so you arenot limited to PCI Ethernet cards and modems). It offers both a shell and Web inter- face for managing your firewall. For a list of some additional firewall/router distributions, see the DistroWatch.comsite: www.distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=firewalls. SummaryNo computer should be connected to the Internet or any public network withouteither being behind a firewall or being configured as a firewall itself. All of the latestLinux systems have iptables built right into the kernel to offer excellent firewall fea- tures (earlier Linux systems included ipchains or ipfwadm). Desktop Linux systems often offer simplified, graphical tools for configuring a fire- wall. Every Linux system, however, enables you to use the iptables command directlyto change the rules in your running Linux system. There are also tools to save andrestore your firewall rules. Coyote Linux illustrates how a Linux distribution with many valuable features canfit on a medium as small as a floppy disk. You stepped through creating the firewallfloppy, booting it, and configuring the running firewall. …
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