2005/6/24, Paul Cartwright <paul_tbot@pcartwright.com>:
My son is having problems with his ( XP ) PC. He seems to be getting smurf attacks, or something like that.
smufs attack protection is sole responsability of your ISP.
I'm not sure I can sway him to run SUSE ( or any Linux distro), but I may be able to get him to run a Linux firewall on another, older, spare PC. Could he just run SUSE on this spare box and use his cablemodem from XP, through the SUSE box? what would be other suggestions for a Linux firewall box ? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 X-Request-PGP: http://home.comcast.net/~p.cartwright/wsb/key.asc
I suggest you,if you want a "quick setup" firewall on an old machine,you can use. http://www.m0n0.ch/wall/ (freebsd based, web interface,fully featured) coyote linux: http://www.coyotelinux.com/downloads/channel.php?ChannelID=5 leaf: http://leaf.sourceforge.net or if you like to run SUSE.get the latest version and do a text mode minimal installation. -- Cristian Rodriguez. "for DVDs in Linux screw the MPAA and ; do dig $DVDs.z.zoy.org ; done | \ perl -ne 's/\.//g; print pack("H224",$1) if(/^x([^z]*)/)' | gunzip"