Major Features

Thursday, 23 December 2010 22:27 Last Updated on Thursday, 09 May 2013 22:00 Written by mhauser

Base Information

  • based on gentoo
  • linux kernel 3.x
  • iptables support
  • networking and routing support
  • vmware-tools included

Some of the installed components

  • lcdproc (LCD Display Driver)
  • syslog-ng (Syslog Next Generation Logging Daemon)
  • lm_sensors (general SMBus access and hardware monitoring)
  • smartd (Monitor storage systems using SMART)
  • nfs (NFS server daemon)
  • iptables (netfilter iptables)
  • shorewall (shorewall firewall)
  • coovachilli (captive portal)
  • yfi (captive portal)
  • packetfence (PacketFence NAC System)
  • htbinit (HTB based Traffic Shaping)
  • cbqinit (CBQ based Traffic Shaping)
  • tor (Anonymizing overlay network for TCP)
  • mastershaper (network traffic shaper which provides an Web Interface for Quality of Service)
  • quagga (Quagga Routing Daemon)
  • heartbeat (High Availability Services)
  • ucarp (ucarp is similiar to vrrp)
  • keepalived (Keepalived VRRPd implementation)
  • corosync (HA)
  • pacemaker (HA)
  • xl2tpd (Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol Daemon)
  • openvpn (Highly configurable Virtual Private Networking Daemon)
  • strongswan (strongswan IPsec for the Linux operating system)
  • squid (Squid Web Proxy Cache)
  • dansguardian (Web Content Filtering)
  • privoxy (Advanced Web Filtering for protecting privacy and filtering Internet junk)
  • pound (Pound is a reverse Proxy Load Balancing Server)
  • postgresql (PostgreSQL Server)
  • mysql (MySql Database Server)
  • apache2 (Apache Webserver)
  • lighttpd (Lightweight high-performance web server)
  • proftpd (Proftp FTP Daemon)
  • pure-ftpd (fast, production-quality, standard-conformant FTP server)
  • dhcpd (DHCP Server)
  • dhcrelay (DHCP Relay Agent/Daemon)
  • samba (SAMBA is a suite of SMB and CIFS client/server programs for UNIX)
  • freeradius (Premiere open source RADIUS server)
  • named (Named/Bind DNS Server)
  • dnsmasq (DNS Caching/Forwarding Daemon)
  • snort (SNORT IDS Daemon)
  • sarg (Squid Analysis Report Generator)
  • ntop (Ntop is a tool that shows the network usage)
  • postfix (Postfix Mail Server)
  • MailScanner (MailScanner spam filter)
  • mailwatch (webinterface for mailscanner)
  • baruwa (webinterface for mailscanner)
  • ldap_recipients_sync (Only accept mails for valid AD / LDAP recipients)
  • clamd (Virus Scanner used by amavisd)
  • postgrey (Postgrey is a Postfix policy server implementing greylisting)
  • spamassassin (Spamfilter)