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