Difference between revisions of "COMP 3000 2011 Report: ZeroShell"
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*'''DHCP and DNS server:''' Lets clients in the network automatically receive an IP address (DHCP) and communicate using identifiers instead of IP addresses (DNS). | *'''DHCP and DNS server:''' Lets clients in the network automatically receive an IP address (DHCP) and communicate using identifiers instead of IP addresses (DNS). | ||
... and many more. The use of some of these features will be discussed in more detail in the Basic Operation section. | ... and many more. The use of some of these features will be discussed in more detail in the Basic Operation section. | ||
ZeroShell is not based on another Linux distribution; it is built from the Linux source code using Linux from scratch (3). However, most of the services ZeroShell provides, e.g. OpenVPN (4) and httpd (Apache) (5), are developed by open source development groups, and then included in this multi-purpose network management tool (2). | |||
Revision as of 20:17, 14 November 2011
ZeroShell
Introduction
ZeroShell is a Linux distribution developed by Fulvio Ricciardi (1), a system administrator at the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics’ (INFN) Lecce Section (2). Its purpose is to provide advanced LAN services, e.g. for an office building. Some of these services are:
- Firewall: Enables forwarding of wanted traffic and blocking of unwanted traffic.
- DHCP and DNS server: Lets clients in the network automatically receive an IP address (DHCP) and communicate using identifiers instead of IP addresses (DNS).
... and many more. The use of some of these features will be discussed in more detail in the Basic Operation section.
ZeroShell is not based on another Linux distribution; it is built from the Linux source code using Linux from scratch (3). However, most of the services ZeroShell provides, e.g. OpenVPN (4) and httpd (Apache) (5), are developed by open source development groups, and then included in this multi-purpose network management tool (2).