Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (257 mails)

[george <gasjr4wd@xxxxxxx>]

On 8/27/04 7:44 AM, "Paul Ikanza" <PIkanza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Hi Everyone, im running suse firewall on CD for my squid. It works in such a
> way that when the server boots, it actually boots from the cd-rom drive and
> picks some files from a floppy diskette (Which can be edited to suit one's
> need). It is therefore really secure in that a hacker would not write onto
> the CD-they can only go as far as maybe viewing the contents.
> I am however experiencing really slow network speeds as in really slow! I
> need ideas on how I can possibly troubleshoot that problem and if any one is
> actually using this procedure for a firewall, bring me upto speeed on it.
> Paul.
> o ~ o ~ o ~ o ~ o ~ o ~ o ~ o ~ o ~ o ~ o
> Julius Paul Ikanza
> Systems Administrator
> New Vision Printing & Publishing Company
> email: pikanza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Your squid server runs on the CD, or the just the firewall, and the squid is
on another box?
I am looking into running squid soon and am a total newbie, but if my first
sentence is correct, do you understand what squid does?

But if I understand, you are writing your files to the floppy. They are
_very_ slow!


If I'm totally off base- just ignore me. Everyone else does.  :)

-- 
Thanks,
George


Best to keep your mouth closed and let people think you're an idiot than
to open it and remove all doubt.