On Monday 29 July 2002 14:54, Fábio Rabelo wrote:
Why use more powerfull hardware ? Because for gateways/firewalls a Pentium with 64 of RAM is MUCH MORE than enough hardware !! Why don't use the Suse Firewall on a CD ? Because I'm in Brasil !! Third world with all the rest of the "first" world in crisis , anyone here can afford U$1000,00 just to build a simple gateway/firewall !!! A hardware based gateway/firewall ( like Linksys,Dlink ) is about U$100,00 here !! To a complete corporate file/email server maybe, but NOT for this !
There are other solutions for firewalls/gateways. Depending on your needs, Smoothwall provides a simple, free, downloadable, Linux based firewall that runs nicely on an old 486. I have been using Smoothwall at home, and in a business network for quite a while now without a single problem. Beats the troubles I was having trying to adapt SuSE 7.x to the task... took me 15 minutes to set up, and I can remotely admin the business one from home via ssh or a web browser. C.