[AccessD] Frank Tanner's "How-To" build a Linux Firewall - m0n0wall?

On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 20:48 +1300, Tortise wrote:
> Hi
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> Anyone wanting to do this might also like to consider http://m0n0.ch/wall/index.php where software based on FreeBSD is already customised and dedicated to this task.
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>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Jim Lawrence 
>   To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' 
>   Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 8:20 PM
>   Subject: Re: [AccessD] Frank Tanner's "How-To" build a Linux Firewall
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> 
>   Excellent idea.
> 
>   Jim
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>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>   [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow
>   Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 10:34 AM
>   To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
>   Subject: Re: [AccessD] Frank Tanner's "How-To" build a Linux Firewall
> 
>   What do you guys think of helping Frank put together a newsletter article on
>   this for our newsletter?
> 
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>   [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Colby
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Yes, MonoWall is very good.  FreeBSD is very good as well, as an OS.
The only issue is that Linux is compatible with a wider variety of
hardware than FreeBSD is.

Two of my home machines are running FreeBSD.