[Fwd: Re: [SLE] Cable internet questions]

Sorry Frank. I hit the wrong reply. Tom -----Forwarded Message-----

From: Tom Nielsen To: Franklin Maurer Subject: Re: [SLE] Cable internet questions Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:20:56 -0700

On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 15:00, Franklin Maurer wrote:

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Well i'm finally going to get high speed internet in the next few months. But i have a few questions...

I'd like to turn one of my old computers into a dedicated firewall, would smoothwall or the SuSE firewall be a better choice?

The computer is a old piece of ... 100 Mhz pentium, 96 MB, 2 whopping 1g hardrives ... will this be sufficient?.

I take it that it needs two nics, right? (Modem to firewall, firewall to router)

Is Lynksys a good choice for a router? Any specific model?

Is the setup modem > firewall > router > computer land ?

Any faqs or how tos I should read?

TIA

I'm sure a lot of folks are going to tell you about how to setup the firewall, but as far as I'm concerned, and if you don't have one already, try a firewall/router for cable. I have an SMC ABR400blah, blah. $40, with built in firewall, and 4-port switch. Works perfectly for me and easy to setup. I had it up and running in about 5 minutes. It also holds my IP for as long as possible.

I have a SuSEfirewall here running on a 1gb drive with a P100 and 256mb memory. As far as I know it works fine.

Tom

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