m0n0wall: big friendly firewall power in a tiny package

m0n0wall is a specialized implementation of FreeBSD designed for routers and firewalls. It weighs in at well under 10 megabytes, but you still get a complete operating system, firewall, Web administration, traffic shaping, DNS server, DHCP server, SNMP, support for DynDNS updates and a whole lot more. m0n0wall offers a nice pointy-clicky interface for setting up a stout ipfilter firewall. For ultimate power, however, you really want to know how to write rules from scratch.

ipfilter rule syntax is not like iptables rules,…. more

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