Been messing around with the other Linux firewall router OS and I find they are lacking modern refinement as well as not being fully universal to network setups.
So I would like to start a distribution using ubuntu server, iptables, bind9, dhcpd then add suicata and ip-sec, openVPN, wireguard, Nginx with perl cgi as a web gui
I do like the starting structure of ipcop and ipfire with color based network zones to identify types however I don’t like the limitartions to how they add zone networks.
Also, I would like to incorporate a switch mode so the server can be used as a managed switch instead of a router.
Naming it, I haven’t gave it much thought, Swibuntu or Firubuntu is what I came up with.
Thoughts? Suggestions? Anyone doing something like this yet?
I did join the IPFire dev mailing list and asked one of the head developers about changes, but he told me that I needed to rewrite allmost all of their operating system for the changes I wanted to do.
Since I have to do that, I might as well support my favorite distributions (Ubuntu and the alternatives) and write it with the Ubuntu Kernel and its driver libraries.