On Tuesday 20 May 2003 10:32 am, Nick LeRoy wrote:
On Tuesday 20 May 2003 9:22 am, Darrell Cormier wrote:
I am fairly new to networking and need a little input from those in the know. I have been contemplating configuring an old machine to handle firewall/mail type functions and then forward traffic to my main workstation. I will load 8.2 on both machines. My questions are whether the experts on this list think that my old machine is powerful enough to handle this task. The old machine is a Pentium MMX 166mhz, 64MB RAM, 6.5 GB of HD space (2 drives). Will this handle a stripped down installation of SuSE 8.2 and handle SuSEfirewall2 and possibly a proxy server????
Mine's currently running on a P-90 16M. :-) The machine that you describe will do just fine.
How did you get SuSE installed on that small a machine? I tried 8.0 on a 64MB machine and finally gave up.
Also, my understanding is that I will need two NICs in this box: one for the DSL connection, the other for relaying traffic to my WS. Is this correct?
Yes. Typically, eth0 will connect to your "nternal" network, and eth1 to your external.
TIA for any input, Darrell Cormier
Have fun!
-Nick
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