Zeroshell

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Developer Fulvio Ricciardi Working state Current Platforms IA-32		OS family Unix-like Source model Open source Kernel type Monolithic

Zeroshell is a small open-source Linux distribution for servers and embedded systems which aims to provide network services. Its administration relies on a web-based graphical interface; no shell is needed to administer and configure it. Zeroshell is available as Live CD and CompactFlash images, and VMware virtual machines.

Zeroshell can be installed on any IA-32 computer with almost any Ethernet interface. It can also be installed on most embedded devices.

Selected features

RADIUS server which is able to provide strong authentication for the Wireless clients by using IEEE 802.1X and Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA/WPA2) protocols

Captive portal for network authentication in the HotSpots by using a web browser. The credentials can be verified against a Radius server, a Kerberos 5 KDC (such as Active Directory KDC)

Netfilter – Firewall, Packet Filter and Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI), Layer 7 filter to block or shape the connections generated by Peer to Peer clients

Linux network scheduler – control maximum bandwidth, the guaranteed bandwidth and the priority of some types of traffic such as VoIP and peer-to-peer

VPN host-to-LAN and LAN-to-LAN with the IPSec/L2TP and OpenVPN protocols

Routing and Bridging capabilities with VLAN IEEE 802.1Q support

Multizone DNS (Domain name system) server

Multi subnet DHCP server

PPPoE client for connection to the WAN (Wide area network) via ADSL, DSL and cable lines

Dynamic DNS client updater for DynDNS

NTP (Network Time Protocol) client and server

Syslog server for receiving and cataloging the system logs produced by the remote hosts

Kerberos 5 authentication

LDAP server

X.509 certification authority

References

Zeroshell Wikipedia

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