🚀 go-pugleaf

At Sun, 04 Jan 2004 03:18:54 GMT, Damon 
<damonriley@DONTSPAM.alumni.umass.edu> reached down, grabbed what he 
thought was the keyboard and started stroking in dc.org.linux-users:

> 
> I'm looking at setting up an old (PII) machine as a firewall for my home
> network (cable modem and wireless hub).  I've got one Linux PC, one
> Windows XP PC, and a dual-boot WindowsXP/Linux machine.  The Linux PC is
> the PII and it will be sacrificed to the need for a firewall.  It has a
> 10 gig hd in it right now, but I have a 4 gig I could use if 10 gig is
> overkill.  The firewall I'm looking at requires only 2 gig...
> 
> I'm interested in what you use and would suggest for a set-up like mine.
> ~ I am most interested in a product (GPL) called SmoothWall Express
> (http://www.smoothwall.org), so if you have tried it, or looked into in
> and rejected it, I'd like to know more about your experience with it.
> Other than reading their manuals online, I haven't invested much in
> SmoothWall, so if you have other suggestions, please share them.
> 

I'm using GPL version 1.0 and recommend it ... haven't updated to Express 
yet.  I'll eventually play around using a spare hard drive.

Meanwhile, 2 GB is plenty ... 4 GB gives you more room for log files.


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Bob Ashley - UNIX Geek - Centreville, VA
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Are you auto-extracting e-mail addresses?  Then uce@ftc.gov and 
report@fraud.org should be of special interest.

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