Raspberry Pi FireWall

[Defib]

Good Afternoon.

I am novice and rather clueless when it somes to terminal based programming as such (linux etc)

Im looking for a simple-ish firewall that uses a GUI for me to use on the RPi

Any hints?\

 

[slvR]

IPFire, not sure if fully supported on ARM though. Also note that the Ethernet shares bandwidth with USB so don't expect much from it.

 

[envo]

You don't need to program anything, there's loads of firewalls that exist already

 

[Defib]

You don't need to program anything, there's loads of firewalls that exist already

Gee thanks, how about sharing a few names???

 

[slvR]

supa hot fire

like my new mixtape

 

[GoofySmurf]

Gee thanks, how about sharing a few names???

go to http://www.google.com and search for "Raspberry Pi Firewall"

You are welcome ...

 

[Centronix]

search for pfsense as well. The Pi has one NIC though so you'll need to set up vlans. the interface guides you though so it should be easy

 

[Defib]

go to http://www.google.com and search for "Raspberry Pi Firewall"

You are welcome ...

***roll eyes*** Then tell me what is the point of this forum?? Wise a$$

 

[Necropolis]

As said you are ideally going to want something with 2 NIC - one for the internal (LAN facing) interface and one for the external (WAN facing interface).

You could probably get something working on the Pi - but it will be messy and probably won't perform very well.

Rather get a cheap 2nd hand machine - stick a second NIC into it and install something like PFSense onto it.

 

[slvR]

As said you are ideally going to want something with 2 NIC - one for the internal (LAN facing) interface and one for the external (WAN facing interface).

You could probably get something working on the Pi - but it will be messy and probably won't perform very well.

Rather get a cheap 2nd hand machine - stick a second NIC into it and install something like PFSense onto it.

Unless he's going to use it for tinkering. I wouldn't use a Raspi in any real workload environment. They're cool little gadgets to build on but not the type of hardware you should depend on for high availability.

 

[Mars]

***roll eyes*** Then tell me what is the point of this forum?? Wise a$$

You need to be asking the correct questions to get the answers you need.

just asking for a firewall that will work on the pi is going to get you answers like that.

Rather ask people to recommend a firewall, since that seems to be what you really want. Maybe ask for a Pi firewall for noobs.

Personally since performance is going to be an issue I'm not sure that any real kind of load on the pi is viable. If you're running a firewall for one or two pc's it may work, but then why not just use the firewall software on the pc's?

 

[Necropolis]

Unless he's going to use it for tinkering. I wouldn't use a Raspi in any real workload environment. They're cool little gadgets to build on but not the type of hardware you should depend on for high availability.

Absolutely.

Then again he didn't mention if it was the Pi2 or the 1st gen.

Would actually be cool if they shipped later revisions with 2 NICs onboard