FS-Security...*nix distro firewall/ICS, anyone try it?

[YeOldeStonecat]

http://www.fs-security.com/
Did a search for it here..came up blank.

I'm a fan of the *nix distro routers that you install on a dedicated box, or within a VMWare server..such as Endian, IPCop, Untangle, etc...
but this little one looks cool.

[Unity]

afaik Firestarter is nothing more than a gui for iptable which is the firewall included in the linux kernel.
It has nothing in common with , let's say ipcop which is a fully working and stand alone firewall.

You can install firestarter from synaptic under ubuntu for example.

Then again , i am not a linux guru , just a regular user , take my words with a grain of salt :D

[Alphalutra1]

I am just repeating what the other poster said. Firestarter is just an application that is used to put a GUI frontend to iptables.

Have you tried pfsense (http://www.pfsense.org/)? It may be another one for you to play around with (seeing as though this one isn't a distro) It is a project forked from m0n0wall, that was unsatisfied with m0n0wall's goal of being an embedded system. It is based on FreeBSD 6 and uses OpenBSD's pf, so you have a great combo of speed, a large number of apps, a GUI, and an excellent firewall.

Cheers,

Alphalutra1