Re: firewall

[Mike Werner <reznaeous@earthlink.net>]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 04:03:50PM -0500, mountaincable.net wrote:
> I've picked up an ORION 486DLC-33 w/386 BIOS that I want to set up as
> a firewall.  Newer distr's of linux have min requirements above my system.
> What distr. should I use (Debian has been recommended)?  Is there an
> outline somewhere of  how to go about setting up a firewall and what
> packages I need to install to run one?

Is this to be a dial-up router?  If so, I'd say to look at:
http://mpsdr.unx.nu/MINI/
This thing runs off of a single 3.5" floppy - doesn't even use the
hard drive.  I've got it running here on a 486DX2/66 with 16 megs
RAM, but it's advertised as being able to run on anything down to
a 386 with 8 megs RAM.  Once I had it downloaded and onto a floppy,
it took all of about 10 minutes to setup.  It does demand dialing,
IP Masq, and cacheing DNS.  I like it.  A lot.
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