[Fwd: Re: [SLE] Cable internet questions]
Sorry Frank. I hit the wrong reply. Tom -----Forwarded Message-----
From: Tom Nielsen <tom@neuro-logic.com> To: Franklin Maurer <nebbish@sprynet.com> Subject: Re: [SLE] Cable internet questions Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:20:56 -0700
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 15:00, 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?
Is the setup modem > firewall > router > computer land ?
Any faqs or how tos I should read?
TIA
I'm sure a lot of folks are going to tell you about how to setup the firewall, but as far as I'm concerned, and if you don't have one already, try a firewall/router for cable. I have an SMC ABR400blah, blah. $40, with built in firewall, and 4-port switch. Works perfectly for me and easy to setup. I had it up and running in about 5 minutes. It also holds my IP for as long as possible.
I have a SuSEfirewall here running on a 1gb drive with a P100 and 256mb memory. As far as I know it works fine.
Tom
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