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On Monday 22 September 2003 18:00 pm, Franklin Maurer wrote:
Well i'm finally going to get high speed internet in the next few months. But i have a few questions...
I'd like to turn one of my old computers into a dedicated firewall, would smoothwall or the SuSE firewall be a better choice?
The computer is a old piece of ... 100 Mhz pentium, 96 MB, 2 whopping 1g hardrives ... will this be sufficient?.
I take it that it needs two nics, right? (Modem to firewall, firewall to router)
Is Lynksys a good choice for a router? Any specific model?
Some may disagree with this but I think if you get the right router (I had a Linksys) and one with a few ports on it, you won't need to use that extra computer. I found that the firewall capabilities of the Linksys router were as good or better than anything linux could provide. And it also provided port forwarding and a lot of other goodies. I started out with a dual-nic linux box, but ended up plugging everything into the router... so I've seen it done both ways.
Is the setup modem > firewall > router > computer land ?
Any faqs or how tos I should read?
TIA
-- Franklin Maurer Using SuSE 8.2 Pro
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