Jim Moy

I’ve been fiddling with Bering on and off for months before I finally got a configuration to the point where it could substitute for my Dachstein firewall. The two primary advantages for me are its stock 2.4 kernel configuration, and Shorewall.

Since I don’t “do” router configuration every day, every time I got back in to open up a port for ssh or a service running on my web server or whatever, I felt like I had to re-learn ipchains before I was comfortable tweaking settings. Iptables plus shorewall puts a model on it that makes it easy to use.

With the 2.4 kernel the LRP modules for supporting my PCMCIA wireless cards as well as volume support becomes easier too, everything is just download and run and there’s not much re-configuring from the stock version that comes on the floppy. Satisfied user.