M0n0wall
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- The correct title of this article is m0n0wall. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.
m0n0wall is an embedded firewall distribution of FreeBSD, one of the BSD operating system descendants. It provides a small image which can be put on Compact Flash cards as well as on CDROMs and hard disks. It runs on a number of embedded platforms and generic PC's. The PC version can be run with just a LiveCD and a floppy disk to store configuration data, or on a single Compact Flash card (with an IDE adapter). This eliminates the need for a hard drive, which 1. reduces noise and heat levels and 2. increases reliability because it eliminates the possibility of a physical hard drive crash.
m0n0wall provides for a web-based configuration and uses PHP exclusively for the GUI and bootup configuration. Additionally, it adopts a single XML file for configuration parameters.
Some functions of m0n0wall are:
- Stateful packet filter firewall
- IPsec and PPTP VPNs
- Inbound and Outbound Network Address Translation
- Captive portal
- Traffic shaper
- Replacement for commercial router
[edit] Derivatives
- pfSense - Builds off of m0n0wall and adds plugins such as ntop, nmap, pure-ftpd, and more.
- FreeNAS - Network-attached storage distro using FreeBSD 6 and the m0n0wall web gui.
