Re: small linux firewall/router advice

From: Geoff (nospam@me.com)
Date: 12/27/01 

From: Geoff <nospam@me.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 12:57:31 +1100

You could try Coyote linux or freesco for a basic setup. You wont get
many services running in 8mb ram, perhaps dhcp but certainly not a
proxy cache.
Linux in general will not support winmodems ie. 95% of internal modems
without a special somewhat experimental driver which works for SOME
winmodems only.
I personally use Smoothwall on a p100 16mb ram. Old pc's of such types
are quite cheap to obtain and it does the job well.

On 26 Dec 2001 16:24:32 -0800, edwardsdaj@yahoo.co.uk (D Edwards)
wrote:

>I have a modem dialup connexion and a small home network of 3 pc's.
>ATM I am using one linux box to provide all network services including
>dhcp, web proxy and NAT/firewall but it is also a file server and my
>work station. Whilst I think its fairly secure I'd like to seperate
>these services to a dedicated box. Problem is the pc I am hoping to
>use is a 386 with only 8mb ram. Would this perform ok? I like the
>look of smoothwall mainly because of the web admin interface and
>caching web proxy, but it looks like this is pushing it a bit.
>The lightweight floppy based firewalls I have read about (eg floppyfw)
>don't seem to support modem dialup or control/dial on demand.
>
>Another consideration is the modem I intend to use is isa and I need
>to use isapnp to initialise it. Any recommendations appreciated.
>
>TIA
>
>Dean Edwards

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