floppyfw was a

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running

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to provide a

firewall Firewall may refer to: * Firewall (computing), a technological barrier designed to prevent unauthorized or unwanted communications between computer networks or hosts * Firewall (construction), a barrier inside a building, designed to limit the spre ...

/gateway/ router on a single bootable

floppy disk A floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, or a diskette) is an obsolescent type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic enclosure lined ...

, but was later available in CD format.
- Reviews concluded that it was a very simple and reliable gateway/firewall that could be established on small to medium-sized networks at low cost and with ease. One independent study concluded that it was " best possible security provided by a floppy-based firewall" for the repurposing of old, redundant hardware into Linux-based firewalls or routers.

Requirements

* Intel 80386SX or better * two network interface cards * 1.44MB floppy drive * 12MByte of RAM

Features

Floppyfw's features include: * Access lists * IP-masquerading ( network address translation) * Connection tracked packet filtering * Quite advanced routing * Traffic shaping *

PPPoE The Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) is a network protocol for encapsulating Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) frames inside Ethernet frames. It appeared in 1999, in the context of the boom of DSL as the solution for tunneling pack ...

* Very simple packaging system. Is used for editors, PPP, VPN, traffic shaping and whatever comes up * Logging through klogd/syslogd, both local and remote * Serial support for console over serial port *

DHCP The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a network management protocol used on Internet Protocol (IP) networks for automatically assigning IP addresses and other communication parameters to devices connected to the network using a cli ...

server and DNS cache for internal networks

References

External links

floppyfw main web page
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