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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Best router distro for learning firewalls/networks?
 
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Helushune
Oct 5, 2011

 I was going to mention m0n0wall but PFSense is based off it so they pretty much go hand-in-hand. MikroTik (SA thread) seems to be fairly popular as well but I don't know much about it. I think there's something to be said about firing up a fresh linux or *BSD box, enabling IPF or IPTABLES and doing everything by hand. I've found that it helps immensely when you're trying to troubleshoot if something goes wrong or the GUI isn't working for whatever reason and you need to add a firewall rule asap.

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