m0n0wall is a project aimed at creating a complete, embedded firewall software package that, when used together with an embedded PC, provides all the important features of commercial firewall boxes (including ease of use) at a fraction of the price (free software). m0n0wall is based on a bare-bones version of FreeBSD, along with a web server,
PHP and a few other utilities. The entire system configuration is stored in one single
XML text file to keep things transparent. m0n0wall is probably the first UNIX system that has its boot-time configuration done with
PHP, rather than the usual shell scripts, and that has the entire system configuration stored in
XML format.
