m0n0wall (monowall) freeBSD firewall

[bitcore]

http://m0n0.ch/wall/index.php
What about m0n0wall? Excellent FreeBSD based firewall software and my favorite out of them all. Wonderful ballence of features, stable & secure as a rock.
(heck, it also comes in CF flash images, embedded system images, and HDD versions)

Name: M0n0wall
URL: http://m0n0.ch/wall/index.php
ISO: 7.22 MB
DL: http://m0n0.ch/wall/download.php?file=cdrom-1.11.iso
Arch: X86 FreeBSD
Purpose: Firewall
Language: EN


It's rather popular in the home-grown wireless ISP circles, Much better than a floppy based solution where size forces features to be cut. It's better if you have a box with at least 133mhz for ease of administration, since it's PHP web-based, admin pageloads can be slow on a really slow processor, apparently the administration php thread has a low process priority to keep network throughput and reliability up. <- A plus

[nick]

Wow, not sure how I missed this one, I guess I always thought it needed to be installed to a hard drive like smoothwall.

I'm gonna go try it out. Thanks for the post!

[bitcore]

nope, It may have use to more than a year ago, I've been running it for about 14 months now. The CF image rom is a neat trick too. Buy a 16M CF card and a CF to IDE converter (the pins onthe card are exactly the same as IDE, just extremely small) off of ebay for lke 5$ and you have a diskless router, remove the fans and get passive heatsinks and and you have no moving parts.