david stevenson wrote:
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.
There are many ways of sorting this, I would try looking at IPcop, a complete fire wall install. My preference for staying with the D-link is the lack of fan noise 24/7 but everyone to what suits them. David
Lot's of choices, here's another one http://BBIagent.net, works off a floppy. Just one slight drawback on the (free) floppy setup as opposed to the .iso version (non-free) - you have to spend a few minutes on the config if you have a fair number of ports you want to forward. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Linux Only Shop.