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Re: Senior Project



On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 06:22:18PM -0500, eileen@orbell.com wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am doing my Senior Project shortly for my degree and have decided that I 
> would like to build a Linux firewall which also is configured for IP 
> Masquerading and DNS using Bind.  I really just wanted ideas from some of 
> the more experienced users on this list who have done the same type of 
> setup for themselves.
> Currently I have a Debian server and have access to 2 static IP 
> addresses.  I also have a Windows 2000 box and a Windows NT4.0 box and the 
> current network is using a Linksys router.
> I would be using probably a Pentium 100 with 48mg ram as my firewall PC 
> which has 2 ethernet cards.
> But I wonder if I should consider using my current Debian server which is a 
> Pentium 500?  As you can see I am quite unsure as to the best approach to 
> this project. I do appreciate your comments and maybe a helping hand in 
> guiding me in the right direction. I might add I have no firewall experience.
> 
> Regards
> 

You might find some useful info here -
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/index.html
kent

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