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Hello everybody! First I must apologize for not answering many questions here on the openvpn list as I used to. I've been at home with my 1 year old kid since newyear, and when I don't work with OpenVPN on a daily basis my interest for it is not as big as it used to be. Anyway, I'll be back at work in september again and then I hope I'll get the inspiration back, so I can continue the work on OpenVPN GUI and solve the non-admin problem that a lot of people asks about... Anyway, I had a little off-topic question. My main task at work the last 5 years or so has been seting up and maintaining linux based firewalls. At the beginning I used to do complete linux installtions based on Slackware, but since a few years back, I've been maintaining a homebrewed bootable CD inspired by the floppyfw project but extended to include more tools than a single floppy can hold. My system currently boots from the CD, creates a ramdisk and copies a directory containing all the necessary files to run the system from the CD. Then if copies all files from a floppy and executes a script that was on the floppy. This script installs additional optional packages from the CD and then proceeds executing the regular rc.d scrips similar to a slackware system (rc.S, rc.M and rc.inet1) which setups the network interfaces and firewall rules. The tools/applications I have on the CD is busybox dhcpd openswan openssh openvpn 1.5,1.6 and 2.0 tcpdump tcpdump nslookup midnight commander top syslog I hate GUIs (despite the fact that I've written the OpenVPN GUI ;-)) so I administrate everything from commandline. My firewall scripts are simple bash scripts executing iptables commands and thats the way I like it. But, as I'm a single person with limited time, I've realized that to much of my time goes into maintaining this bootable CD and keeping everything up to date. So my question to the community is: Can anybody recommend a good living opensource project that does something similar to my system that I can take advantage of so I can spend my time on better things than keeping this system up-to-date when I'm sure a lot of other people a working on similar projects. It must be bootable from a R/O media with the config on a seperate volume like a floppy or harddrive partition. I don't want todo harddisk installations. It should include most the tools I've listed above. If it includes a GUI/web interface, well that's fine, as long as it's still simple todo everything I want from simple config files. I'd really hate to launch a web browser to configure my firewalls! If OpenVPN is not included that is not a major problem. If it's a good project that seems to have some future and fullfills my other wishes I'll spend my time on adding OpenVPN to the project... Cheers and good night // Mathias -- _____________________________________________________________ Mathias Sundman (^) ASCII Ribbon Campaign OpenVPN GUI for Windows X NO HTML/RTF in e-mail http://openvpn.se/ / \ NO Word docs in e-mail ____________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users |