Re: firewall

[John Gould <johng@skeletor.powinv.co.uk>]

Hi there,
         I would use Debian Slink 2.1R4, there is a firewall HOWTO in
/usr/doc/HOWTO. Also there is a New Riders publication on setting up a
firewall under Linux. Really good book, definatly worth a look.
Others may recomment 'potato' but I wouldn't use thisd for a production
server just yet!

Hope this helps, regards JohnG

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On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, 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?
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