RE: [SLE] Re:[SLE] Which Cable/DSL Firewall?
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 3:45 pm, Felipe Leon wrote:
At the moment Im also using one of these D-link routers "firewalls" which I will like to replace with a two nic linux box exclusively acting as a firewall and perhaps dhcp server. As I don't have lots of money I was thinking on using for this purpose and old pentium II 64MB RAM with 4GB hard disk I have under my bed. Last night I tried to install SuSE 9 but the computer could not handle it. I know I have very little RAM and so on but I wonder if it is possible to install a *really* minimal system for this box (without X obviously and so on) so it can get the firewall-routing-dhcp work done. Thanks for your important opinions,
Felipe.
OpenBSD makes a good firewall/dhcp server and takes little hardware resources, but very hard to learn... www.openbsd.org There is also smoothwall a linux based firewall, which I have never used but have heard good things about. www.smoothwall.org
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 01:34 pm, Jay Jennings wrote:
I know I have very little RAM and
so on but I wonder if it is possible to install a *really* minimal system for this box (without X obviously and so on) so it can get the firewall-routing-dhcp work done. Thanks for your important opinions,
Take a look at Shorewall on www.shorewall.net If you want a firewall with a minimum of fuss, that's the one. richard
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 03:59:14PM -0600, Richard wrote:
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 01:34 pm, Jay Jennings wrote:
I know I have very little RAM and
so on but I wonder if it is possible to install a *really* minimal system for this box (without X obviously and so on) so it can get the firewall-routing-dhcp work done. Thanks for your important opinions,
Take a look at Shorewall on www.shorewall.net
If you want a firewall with a minimum of fuss, that's the one. richard
And if you want that to run on minimum HW, have a look at LEAF/Bering; http://leaf-project.org/mod.php?mod=userpage&menu=904&page_id=21 486's and up, boot off of floppy, cd, cf or hdd. GPL, loads of packages, mailing list and all... really very nice. Cheers, Jon Clausen -- Whatever rocks your boat!
Felipe Leon wrote Subject: RE: [SLE] Re:[SLE] Which Cable/DSL Firewall? ....... but I wonder if it is possible to install a
*really* minimal system for this box (without X obviously and so on) so it can get the firewall-routing-dhcp work done. Thanks for your important opinions,
Felipe.
Jay Jennings wrote
There is also smoothwall a linux based firewall, which I have never used but have heard good things about. www.smoothwall.org
Felipe I can vouch for the Smoothwall system. I have been using it for over 2 years on Win and now trying it out on SuSE 8.2. Currently using v1.0 update 9 although version 2.0 has just been released. I run this on old 233mhz Pentium II with 4Gb h/d and Alcatel (Thompson)ADSL. The only prob I have encountered - which I am sure is due to my ignorance of Linux rather than the Smoothwall ;-) - is I am struggling to configure the Eth0 and DHCP client on Linux to connect via the Smoothie. If anyone can help on this I would be grateful. HTH Humvee
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