[BBLISA] Home router/NAT/firewall linux software?

[Bill Bogstad]

On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Alex Aminoff <alex at basespace.net> wrote:
>
> My project: build a home firewall/NAT box on which I can have a web app
> where my kids check off when they have done their chores in order to get
> screen time (aka internet access).
>
> The web app I can write. I can build a firewall/NAT box by hand in iptables,
> but do I have to?
>
> On the one hand, I found several complete distributions that do this:
> m0n0wall, smoothwall, etc. On the other hand, what I would like is software
> that does most of what those bundled distributions do that I can install on
> my existing linux system. In that realm all I have found is use raw iptables
> or things called apf and csf, which appear to be geared towards an ISP
> rather than a home network; in particular, I would worry that they would
> take over and clobber the NAT configs. So my question is, can one get the
> nice software built for the m0n0wall or smoothwall distros as standalone
> packages that can be installed on any other linux? (In my case Scientific
> Linux, a RHEL clone).

Have you considered installing one of those firewall distros in a VM
and pointing
their client systems at it as their default router?  It wouldn't
need much in the way of resources allocated to the VM and it might be
easier then
trying to integrate it with your current NAT configs.

Bill Bogstad