m0n0wall can be used as-is with the Wireless Router Application Platform from PC Engines (www.pcengines.ch), the net45xx/net48xx embedded PCs from Soekris Engineering (www.soekris.com) or most standard PCs (with a BIOS that supports booting from CD-ROM (El Torito standard) for the CD-ROM version).
m0n0wall already provides many of the features of expensive commercial firewalls, including:
- web interface (supports SSL)
- serial console interface for recovery
- set LAN IP address
- reset password
- restore factory defaults
- reboot system
- wireless support (access point with PRISM-II/2.5/3 cards, BSS/IBSS with other cards including Cisco)
- captive portal
- 802.1Q VLAN support
- stateful packet filtering
- block/pass rules
- logging
- NAT/PAT (including 1:1)
- DHCP client, PPPoE, PPTP and Telstra BigPond Cable support on the WAN interface
- IPsec VPN tunnels (IKE; with support for hardware crypto cards, mobile clients and certificates)
- PPTP VPN (with RADIUS server support)
- static routes
- DHCP server and relay
- caching DNS forwarder
- DynDNS client and RFC 2136 DNS updater
- SNMP agent
- traffic shaper
- SVG-based traffic grapher
- firmware upgrade through the web browser
- Wake on LAN client
- configuration backup/restore
- host/network aliases
Official Website : http://m0n0.ch/wall/
Installation instructions : http://m0n0.ch/wall/installation.php
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