On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 08:38:49AM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Hi, > > I want build a firewall into an old PC. Hi Keith, look for 'firestarter'. I also want to use it to gather mail from various ISP accounts look for 'fetchmail' and 'procmail' and serve it out to a local group of 5 users. I want the 5 users to be able to mail each other within the local network. no problem. I dont *need* this, I just *want* to do this to see how it all works. > > The computer is an AMD K-7 with 128Mb Ram, 10Gb drive and two 8139too type NIC Seems good enought. > > The questions I have are > > 1: Is the computer likly to be equal to the task(s)? Yes. > 2: Is it acceptable/sensible to have a firewall double as a mail server? Yes, as long as the machine is up to the task. And it is. Step one is get the machine setup with debian. Grab the 'debian-installer' or net install or an wood iso. Then email us is you get stuck. -Kev
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