by iXsystems | Nov 18, 2008 | M0n0wall
m0n0wall is a specialized implementation of FreeBSD designed for routers and firewalls. It weighs in at well under 10 megabytes, but you still get a complete operating system, firewall, Web administration, traffic shaping, DNS server, DHCP server, SNMP, support for...
by iXsystems | Aug 9, 2008 | M0n0wall
Manuel Kasper has announced the release of m0n0wall 1.234, a minimalist firewall distribution based on FreeBSD. I’ve decided to create one more release in the 1.2x stable branch to add source port randomization (for both NAT and the DNS forwarder). This is a...
by iXsystems | Jul 8, 2008 | M0n0wall, pfSense
The m0n0wall and the pfSense projects have released a beta and 2 alpha versions respectively. m0n0wall 1.3 beta 12 is out, containing a new feature: IPv6 support (routing and firewalling). The change log and the download link can be found on the beta page. pfSense has...
by iXsystems | Apr 24, 2008 | M0n0wall
This tutorial will guide you through copying the m0n0wall image to a compact flash card and the initial configuration of the m0n0wall on the ALIX embedded board. I will be using a VPN accelerator card since I will have about 10 IPsec tunnels actively running at one...
by iXsystems | Mar 1, 2008 | FreeBSD, FreeNAS, M0n0wall
Week 9 has been an interesting one for FreeBSD and FBSD based operating systems: FreeBSD 7.0 and pfSense 1.2 were released and there were some minor releases: FreeNAS 0.686.2 and m0n0wall 1.3b10. FreeNAS 0.686.2 Majors changes: Add ability to set a CIFS/SMB share read...
by iXsystems | Jan 28, 2008 | M0n0wall, pfSense, X vs Y
Wayne Richardson reviewed in total 7 different Linux and BSD firewalls back in Nov 2007 (ClarckConnect, Endian, Gibraltar, IPCop, m0n0wall, pfSense, SmoothWall) and compared them on basis of the following categories: setup, web-gui, extensibility and speed. Since this...
