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Going to dabble...

Otacon — Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:44:17 GMT

Thanks for the comments guys!

Anybody else got any suggestions?

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linuxman — Fri, 10 Oct 2003 00:07:49 GMT

You can run a router/firewall from a 486 with 16Meg ram and just a floppy disc. With a modem and 1 network card or 2 network cards you can set it all up using Freesco.
This boots and runs from a floppy. I have been using this with my network ( NTL cable ) for 2 years and in all that time the 486 has only been powered down when I have had power of in my home to do rewiring. It has never crashed.
See
http://www.freesco.org

for more info.
best wishes

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Adrianhants — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 17:33:28 GMT

There was something about this in the magazine a while ago - if you're just running a PC as a hardware firewall, Smoothwall Linux running on a minimal old Pentium box was the choice, although there may be some more to choose from by now.

http://www.smoothwall.org

The article was in the Justify My Computer series of reader's machines: I don't know whether it's still on the web site's archive pages, though.

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Otacon — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 16:52:11 GMT

Hi all,

Age old story, now that i have several spare bits and pieces lying around i will meld these into 1 system for which i would like to dabble in linux.

My goal eventually will be to have a linux box running as a firewall for my little network.

But i have no idea what version of linux to start with and what sort of spec system i would be looking at to act as the firewall.

As always, your comments are greatly appreciated.

Ot