best linux firewall with p2p blocking and wireless-cafe/WISP features

Jul 28, 2004 2 Replies
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Hello,



I'm going to setup a good firewall for a university wifi network. For legal reasons we need to block P2P traffic. We also would like to redirect new users to a sign-in page on first use (similar to wayport or other wireless cafe type setups) in order to control access to the network.



Good traffic monitoring capabilities (on the IP/mac level) would be a plus as well (something similar to ntop)



I'm planning on going with IPCop and tweaking it, but does anyone else have any better suggestions?


--Matt



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Linux with IPTables is good.

Start by closing the FW completely, then add rules to open it for only the stuff you want to allow.

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Prepare to study a LOT.

Have a look at SNORT for intrusion detection.

frgr Erik

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On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 at 06:06 GMT, Matthew Mucklo spewed into the usenet group comp.security.firewalls:

Sounds like you want nocat (

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Just use nocat on Linux, then run ntop and iptables on it.

Devdas Bhagat

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