Re: Workstation and IP-Masquerading

["C. Falconer" <criggie@ihug.co.nz>]

Theres two options - you can do as you want and use one of the existing 
machines as a firewall/masq box etc, but it will have to be running 
linux.  It will work, but will be less secure, and more confusing than the 
second option.

Are you aware that any low-end pentium or 486 will work fine as a 
firewall?  it doesn't have to be a flash machine...  I was using a 486 SX33 
with 12 Mb ram and 500 Mb HD for about 12 months.  It doesn't need a 
monitor or keyboard (unless you want to display syslogd on it - herc mono 
monitors are very good for that.)   The other advantage of this is that 
things are easier all-round.

At 11:02 AM 11/11/00 +0100, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have two PC's at home and would like to share my internet connection
> (DSL) between them. As I don't want a third computer here running all the time
> I was thinking to enable IP-Masquerading on one of them and build a
> firewall on it as well. It will be running Samba too. Nevertheless I'd like to
> continue using these PC's as Workstations.
>
> Does that seem to be a useful approach? I would really appreciate any
> opions or suggestions you might have. TIA.
>
> Robert
>
>
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