Quick network fix -- looking for help to get two linux boxes to talk to each other.

[Warren Togami]

There are several other available too.

http://www.linuxrouter.org/
Linux Router Project is sorta like FreeSCO.  Boot floppy based IP
masquerading router.

http://www.smoothwall.org/gpl/
Smoothwall is a more full featured CD based firewall.  It has bandwidth
graphs and web based configuration.  Very nice.

http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/products/922
Mandrake Single Network Firewall is pretty good too.  Based on a hardened
2.2.19 kernel, should be very secure and with many useful monitoring and
configuration features pre-installed.

Unfortunately, the above firewalls are based on the Linux 2.2 kernel with
ipchains.  This works fine for most things, but it lacks connection
tracking, also known as "stateful inspection" found in enterprise class
firewall products and BSD ipf.  This is the only way to get stuff like
active FTP, ICQ, Starcraft (and several other games) working through a Linux
IP masquerading setup.

If you need a full blown firewall/router configuration with Linux 2.4 kernel
stateful inspection, follow my guide on the MPLUG wiki.
http://www.mplug.org/phpwiki/index.php?BasicFirewallRouter

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> Get an old 486 box and run a freesco disk. It will work fine
> for you.  It is similar to a cisco router.
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