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From: "Franklin Maurer"
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?. smoothwall would probably be better, needs less memory than suse
I take it that it needs two nics, right? (Modem to firewall, firewall to router)
yes, check the HCL from smoothwall for supported NICs.
Is Lynksys a good choice for a router? Any specific model?
it's decent, see what's on sale.....netgear, linksys, dlink....all cheap routers for home use. Not the best, but suite their markets...
Is the setup modem > firewall > router > computer land ?
i thought you'd expect ....ISP modem>linux firewall>switch>computers If you get a good switch, you don't need the router (linux is taking care of router functions), unless I'm not understanding this correctly?
Any faqs or how tos I should read?
TIA
-- Franklin Maurer Using SuSE 8.2 Pro
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