Way OT: Linux Distro questions...

[Peter Russell]

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Ipcop has a module/contrib for this. Never used it, just noticed when 
whe i was considering using ipcop (i never did).

Alex Neuman van der Hans wrote:
> 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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