Re: Debian as My home firewall/router

2016-03-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 02 March 2016 17:24:36 Jean-Baptiste Thomas wrote: > > I like to avoid the latest and greatest (especially Debian > > latest and greatest, vide infra). > > "Debian vide infra" ? What's that ? "see below" in Latin. Ged is referring to the Schneier URL (s)he gives lower down in his/he

Re: Debian as My home firewall/router

2016-03-02 Thread Jean-Baptiste Thomas
> I like to avoid the latest and greatest (especially Debian > latest and greatest, vide infra). "Debian vide infra" ? What's that ?

Re: Debian as My home firewall/router

2016-02-29 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 05:42:26AM -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > Having posted Roco's comments on an IPCop list, I got these comments Neat. I'm lazy to post my comments there, so I'll keep'em here for the sake of completeness. > Hi Ron, > > On Sun, 28 Feb 2016, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI

Re: Debian as My home firewall/router

2016-02-29 Thread Ron
Having posted Roco's comments on an IPCop list, I got these comments Cheers, Ron. -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie.

Re: Debian as My home firewall/router

2016-02-28 Thread David Christensen
On 02/28/2016 01:35 PM, Stuart Longland wrote: On 28/02/16 18:10, David Christensen wrote: 1. The pfSense installer wanted to use the whole disk. The only way I could get it to use only part of the disk was to create a slice for pfSense and create another slice that ate up all remaining free s

Re: Debian as My home firewall/router

2016-02-28 Thread Stuart Longland
On 28/02/16 18:10, David Christensen wrote: > 1. The pfSense installer wanted to use the whole disk. The only way I > could get it to use only part of the disk was to create a slice for > pfSense and create another slice that ate up all remaining free space. > Then every time I booted, the boot l

Re: Debian as My home firewall/router

2016-02-28 Thread David Christensen
On 02/27/2016 01:29 PM, Reco wrote: On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 12:54:52 -0800 David Christensen wrote: On 02/27/2016 10:40 AM, Reco wrote: On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 09:41:47 -0800 David Christensen wrote: 3. What is your opinion of pfSense? https://pfsense.org/ I'm by no means an expert on

Re: Debian as My home firewall/router

2016-02-27 Thread Reco
On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 12:54:52 -0800 David Christensen wrote: > On 02/27/2016 10:40 AM, Reco wrote: > > > > On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 09:41:47 -0800 > > David Christensen wrote: > >> > >> 1. Where can we learn about the features the OP wants, and how to > >> implement them in Debian? > > > > The only w

Re: Debian as My home firewall/router

2016-02-27 Thread David Christensen
On 02/27/2016 10:40 AM, Reco wrote: On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 09:41:47 -0800 David Christensen wrote: 1. Where can we learn about the features the OP wants, and how to implement them in Debian? The only way way to learn all features the OP wants is to ask OP himself (or herself, I cannot make it

Re: Debian as My home firewall/router

2016-02-27 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 09:41:47 -0800 David Christensen wrote: > On 02/27/2016 06:22 AM, heqamilus wrote: > > I know that is possible to build a firewall using Debian. I'm > > searching for some tutorials, I need to know the system's utility to > > configure Debian installation in this

Re: Debian as My home firewall/router

2016-02-27 Thread David Christensen
On 02/27/2016 06:22 AM, heqamilus wrote: I know that is possible to build a firewall using Debian. I'm searching for some tutorials, I need to know the system's utility to configure Debian installation in this way. For example, manage network interfaces, NAT, vlan and optionally DNS I'm able to

Re: Debian as My home firewall/router

2016-02-27 Thread Charlie Kravetz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 18:06:11 +0100 heqamilus wrote: >On 02/27/2016 05:32 PM, Jose Martinez wrote: > >> I use iptables for this application in Debian. > >Thanks you. >Firewalling is just one topic. I would setup vlan internetworking. >I own a manag

Re: Debian as My home firewall/router

2016-02-27 Thread heqamilus
On 02/27/2016 05:32 PM, Jose Martinez wrote: > I use iptables for this application in Debian. Thanks you. Firewalling is just one topic. I would setup vlan internetworking. I own a managed switch and I want to use debian as router. I'm searching for vlan and wireless access point :) If someone

Re: Debian as My home firewall/router

2016-02-27 Thread Reco
On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 12:15:21 -0300 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 15:22:09 +0100 > heqamilus wrote: > > > I know that is possible to build a firewall using Debian. > > It is possible, but why go to the bother when you have dedicated > distributions like IPCop that come read

Re: Debian as My home firewall/router

2016-02-27 Thread Jose Martinez
On 02/27/2016 08:22 AM, heqamilus wrote: Hi, I know that is possible to build a firewall using Debian. I'm searching for some tutorials, I need to know the system's utility to configure Debian installation in this way. For example, manage network interfaces, NAT, vlan and optionally DNS I'm

Re: Debian as My home firewall/router

2016-02-27 Thread Ron
On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 15:22:09 +0100 heqamilus wrote: > I know that is possible to build a firewall using Debian. It is possible, but why go to the bother when you have dedicated distributions like IPCop that come ready to go, and are by design more secure than a specially-configured Debian will

Debian as My home firewall/router

2016-02-27 Thread heqamilus
Hi, I know that is possible to build a firewall using Debian. I'm searching for some tutorials, I need to know the system's utility to configure Debian installation in this way. For example, manage network interfaces, NAT, vlan and optionally DNS I'm able to do basic firewalling and install an