Best firewall gateway version of Linux ?

[andrew at bishop.dropbear.id.au]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Alex Satrapa wrote:

[...]
> I have given an old 386 box to a married couple friends of mine.  It was
> installed with SmoothWall GPL about 2 years ago (18 months?), and the
> only things I'd change about it if I could be bothered would be
> upgrading to EXT3, and installing sshd so I can connect remotely to do
> preventative maintenance remotely.

smoothwall comes with sshd (at least these days it does), but it doesn't
have it listen on the external interface by default, and it listens on
port 222 rather than the standard 22 (don't ask me why...)

Andrew