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Category Archives: M0n0wall
M0n0wall 1.34 Released
Manuel Kasper has announced a maintenance version in the m0n0wall 1.3 branch: m0n0wall 1.34. This version includes CSRF-related fixes as well as a few other security-relevant updates. There are no major functionality changes, but those who use the traffic shaper … Continue reading
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FreeBSD news and links round-up – week 44
Welcome to the weekly (Free)BSD news round-up (week 44) where we have a mix of news snippets, links, howto’s and software/package updates for you all. These tid-bits are all very interesting and news worthy, yet too small to package as individual … Continue reading
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Embedded Monowall Installation (video)
This tutorial will guide you through copying the m0n0wall image to a compact flash card and the initial configuration of the m0n0wall on the ALIX embedded board. I will be using a VPN accelerator card since I will have about … Continue reading
Available: m0n0wall 1.33
After eleven months of development, version 1.33 of the FreeBSD-based m0n0wall embedded firewall distribution has been released. Manuel Kasper mentions that m0n0wall 1.33 includes several improvements over previous versions and will probably be the last version based on FreeBSD 6.4. Some of the … Continue reading
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Available: m0n0wall 1.33b2 & m0n0wall in 2011
Manual Caspar has announced the availability of the second beta of m0n0wall 1.33: Another beta is ready – there is now a new image type called “generic-pc-serial”, which differs from generic-pc by always using the serial console (on COM1 at … Continue reading
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pfSense development in 2011
Recently I contacted lead developers of different FreeBSD based projects and asked them about their development plans and ideas for 2011. Yesterday we looked at PC-BSD, let’s now see what the pfSense developers have in store. As most of you … Continue reading
Series on 2011 development of FreeBSD based O/S
Next week I’ll be posting a number of posts on what project founders and developers are planning this year for some FreeBSD based operating systems. I’ll be posting on PC-BSD, pfSense, m0n0wall, HeX, MaheshaBSD, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD and maybe a few … Continue reading
4 open source firewall/router projects, incl pfSense and m0n0wall
LinuxPlanet has a post with some background information of 4 great open source firewall/router projects. Two are Linux-based (endian and smoothwall) and the other two are based on FreeBSD (m0n0wall and pfSense): pfSense pfSense is a customized distribution of FreeBSD. It … Continue reading
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