On Wednesday 26 May 2004 10:24 am, Jean LEE wrote:
Hello all,
I am new to Suse and relatively new to Linux.
I would like to put Linux on a x386 PC. The task of this station would be : - work as a router (sharing an internet connection) for my internal LAN, - work as a firewall for my internal LAN, - work as a print server, cvs server,... for my internal LAN.
Can I do it with "Suse Linux 9.0" or do I have to buy "Suse Standard Server"?
If I buy Suse Standard Server, did I have to pay every year ?
Thanks,
Jean In the corner I have a $50 box which has an Intel Celeron 350 or so, 128 megs of ram and a 20 gig hd. It is my router , firewall, VoIP router and print server. It quietly sits there in level 3 doing its thing with 6 machines tied to it. So can you do it? The answer is a resounding sure! SuSE 9.0 /9.1 will easily do all you want it to. I use Shorewall for my firewall cause it's easy to setup and modify if you need to. I cheated a little on the setup, I hooked a keyboard and monitor onto it, installed all the software and got it going, then set it to boot into init 3 and removed the keyboard/monitor/mouse and admin the thing from my main machine via ssh. By admin I mean I occasionally ssh into it just to see if I can. Havent had to do a thing since I set it up. Shortly I will be adding a wireless router but will keep the same machine as my link/firewall to the internet. So don't be timid, go ahead and install SuSE 9.0 and its upgrades and have all the fun you can stand. ra