Way OT: Linux Distro questions...

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

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Dear list,

Most of the time SME's rely on a single piece of equipment to do more 
than one thing. MailScanner often shares the same box with an SME's 
mail, web, firewall and vpn functions.

An increasing number of my clients want to have an easier way to stop 
some layer7 protocols at the gateway - and unless you force upon them a 
lot of restrictions (no IP forwarding except for a few specific cases), 
it becomes a bit cumbersome, inconvenient, or too restrictive.

Has anybody here on the list had success with any small-footprint, GPL 
(and free as in beer) distros that have built-in layer7 filtering? I 
know you can implement layer7 filtering with a few kernel tweaks on most 
regular distros, but since there are stores downtown selling refurbished 
Dell PIIs and PIIIs for less than $150 that could probably do the job 
(provided I add a $5 NIC to the mix), I'd like to be able to pop a cd 
into a cheap PC and have it do the filtering while leaving the 
heavy-duty work (separating spam from ham, archiving mail, and keeping 
viruses at bay) to the mailscanner boxen.

I'm setting the "reply-to:" to my address so I don't clutter up the list 
unnecessarily... thanks for your time!

Regards,

Alex Neuman van der Hans

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