You can get putty from its
development home page at http://chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/.
Using Other Firewall Distributions
Coyote Linux was chosen for this book to illustrate how small, yet still really useful, a Linux distribution
can be. It also uses the iptables facility, which, once you learn how to use it, is useful in all
recent Linux distributions.
There are, however, many other bootable firewalls available today. I strongly recommend that you
check some of these other distributions if you want more or different features than those offered by
Coyote Linux.
Devil-Linux (www.devil-linux.com) is the live CD firewall distribution that is most
often recommended by the people I know. Not only is it recommended because of its
excellent features, but also because it is being actively developed. A firewall is your first
line of defense against Internet intruders, so choosing a firewall distribution to protect
your home or small office computing systems that has an up-to-date firewall with the
latest security patches is a very valuable asset.
In addition to offering common Linux firewall features (such as iptables firewall rules and
syslogd logging), Devil-Linux supports a wide range of hardware drivers, including many
network cards and SCSI devices.
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