[PLUG] [SOT] SonicWALL SOHO2 manual

Larry Brigman larry.brigman at gmail.com
Fri May 30 05:36:20 UTC 2008


On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Roderick A. Anderson <raanders at acm.org> wrote:
> Larry Brigman wrote:
>> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Roderick A. Anderson <raanders at acm.org> wrote:
>>> Top Post ... sorry!  The SonicWall was sitting way up high so I had to
>>> do some fiddling with chairs and/or ladders but found a RESET button on
>>> the back.  It doesn't show up too well in the flyers so it took a hint
>>> from a friend to look there.
>>>
>>> But I'm still looking for another firewall appliance because the upgrade
>>> includes a split of two companies and therefore their internet access.
>>> Oh yes, Linux based is preferable.  ;-)
>>>
>>
>> My search on-line turned up this list of devices:
>> http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT2005548492.html
>>
>> Of that list, I would pick the Asus device or the linksys device.
>> On these you would use open-wrt or dd-wrt.
>
> Thanks Larry.  I was doing some research thinking I'd find something
> without wireless.  I have a Linksys WRT54G (Version 4) with dd-wrt
> installed for wireless access at home but use a Asante firewall
> (Friendly Net?) for my firewall.  I'll look into router/firewall options
> with the dd-wrt some more.  With my last pass through the admin/config
> interface but nothing jumped out at me that screamed "FIREWALL".  It
> works for wireless so I've been able to leave it alone.  No exploring!
>
> As I'm sure you know one of the hazards of doing work under fire is a
> bit of blindness to the obvious.  :-)
>

There is also a package called firestarter that installs on most distro that
can be used as firewall.  At one of my companies they just installed
Fedora Core 4 and loaded firestarter to build the firewall.
The then added a vpn tunnel to the home office across the internet and
across the country.



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