Zeroshell - Linux distribution for servers
Zeroshell is a small Linux distribution for servers & embedded devices aimed at providing the main network services a LAN/Network requires. The main features of this Linux distribution for Network Appliances are listed below:
- QoS (Quality of Service) management and traffic shaping to control traffic over a congested network.
- Load Balancing & Failover of multiple Internet connections;
- Captive Portal to support the web login on wireless and wired networks.
- Http roxy server which is able to block the web pages containing virus.
- UMTS/HSDPA connections by using 3G modems;
- RADIUS server for providing secure authentication and automatic management of the encryption keys to the Wireless 802.11b, 802.11g and 802.11a networks supporting the 802.1x protocol
- Wireless Access Point mode with Multiple SSID and VLAN support by using WiFi network cards based on the Atheros chipsets.
- Lan-to-lan VPN with encapsulation of Ethernet datagrams in SSL/TLS tunnel, with support for 802.1Q VLAN and configurable in bonding for load balancing (band increase) or fault tolerance (reliability increase);
- Host-to-lan VPN with L2TP/IPsec in which L2TP (Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol) authenticated with Kerberos v5 username and password is encapsulated within IPsec authenticated with IKE that uses X.509 certificates;
- Router with static and dynamic routes (RIPv2 with MD5 or plain text authentication and Split Horizon and Poisoned Reverse algorithms);
- 802.1d bridge with Spanning Tree protocol to avoid loops even in the presence of redundant paths;
- 802.1Q Virtual LAN (tagged VLAN);
- Firewall Packet Filter and Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) with filters applicable in both routing and bridging on all type of interfaces including VPN and VLAN;
- NAT to use private class LAN addresses hidden on the WAN with public addresses;
- TCP/UDP port forwarding (PAT) to create Virtual Servers.
- It is possible to reject or shape P2P File Sharing traffic by using IPP2P iptables module in the Firewall and QoS Classifier;
- Multizone DNS server with automatic management of the Reverse Resolution in-addr.arpa;
- Multi subnet DHCP server with the possibility to fix IP depending on client’s MAC address;
- NTP (Network Time Protocol) client and server for keeping host clocks synchronized;
- PPPoE client for connection to the WAN via ADSL, DSL and cable lines (requires a suitable MODEM);
- Dynamic DNS client used to easily reach the host on WAN even when the IP is dynamic;
- Syslog server for receiving and cataloging the system logs produced by the remote hosts including Unix systems, routers, switches, WI-FI access points, network printers & others compatible with the syslog protocol;
- Kerberos 5 authentication using an integrated KDC and cross-authentication between realms;
- LDAP, NIS and RADIUS authorization;
- Unix and Windows Active Directory interoperability using LDAP and Kerberos 5 cross realm authentication.
- X509 certification authority for issuing and managing electronic certificates;
Download ZeroShell Links:
- Iso image for CD
ZeroShell-1.0.beta12.iso - 1GB image for IDE, SATA e USB disks
ZeroShell-1.0.beta12-CompactFlash-IDE-USB-SATA-1GB.img.gz - 1GB Compact Flash for WRAP, ALIX, Soekris 4801 and 5501
ZeroShell-1.0.beta12-ALIX-CompactFlash-1GB.img.gz - VMWare Virtual Machine
ZeroShell-1.0.beta12-VMWARE.zip - Asterisk VoIP PBX
http://www.zeroshell.net/eng/patch-details/#C000
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