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Thursday, 23 December 2010 22:24 Last Updated on Tuesday, 04 January 2011 11:55 Written by mhauser

the redWall Firewall started out with the idea of having a bootable firewall CD with the possibility to store the configuration on a floppy disk. The first initial release was in 1999 and was based on redhat. One of the main goals was to develop a firewall with the following unique features:
  • configuration can be completely saved to a removable media "as is"
  • provide as much features/components/tools as possible
  • be primarly console based for the power users
  • no fancy webinterface which limits to just a certain amount of configuration possiblities
  • the whole filesystem has to be read-only (even if installing the cd to the harddrive)
  • /var should be writable (either by using a ramdisk or a harddrive mounted)
  • full control over /etc files. this way you can control almost every aspect of the system
  • be always up-to-date with the latest version of the used components
  • be up and running very fast