[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: [NTLUG:Discuss]"hardware" Firewall Advice?

[Daphne and Steve Martindell]

What I'm looking for is a "hardware" DSL/Cable-modem Firewall wireless 
and wired router, that can also do printer sharing and supports VPN 
tunneling. I looked at several this weekend: Linksys, Dlink, ...
at Microcenter and Fry's. 
I didn't get a good feeling if any of these would setup easily 
with Linux,and the drivers for Linux are available.

does anyone know which hardware router does all this and works
well with Linux?

         -steve
          Suse 2.4.4-4GB    

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Dan wrote:
> 
> the firewall I use for my lan and home is ipcop www.ipcop.com
> it's a very nice gpl Linux based firewall with all kinds of
> nice features.
> also www.smoothwall.org (ipcop is based on smoothwall) just came out with
> version 2
> 
> I have used both on some old hardware and have been very pleased.
> and they're free and easy to install typically less than 30 min to install.
> I run mine headless and keybordless and installed dansguardian
> (http://dansguardian.org/)
> for a porn filter here at work.
> 
> imho
> Dan