Re: [Shorewall-users] Hardware advice please?

[Julian C. <jc...@lj...>]

Hi John

At 17:01 15/01/03 +1100, John Blue wrote:

>1. I have a spare 486-DX2-66, and a spare Pentium-200MMX both
>with minimum RAM, as well as a couple of small HDD 450 & 850MB.
>Which of these would be the better to use as the FW, and how does
>this FW PC impact on the performance of my small network
>(basically Pentium 111 PC's). Or are these PC's inadequate for the
>task? I can upgrade if necessary.

Have a look at the LEAF project.  http://leaf.sourceforge.net/  It's a 
minimal version of Linux that's especially suited to firewalling.  The 
"Bering" version (available at http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/) is 
well documented, uses Shorewall firewalling and would run adequately on 
either of those machines providing they have at least 16MB of RAM.

I'm afraid I know nothing about the fax software you mentioned, and being 
blunt I think that might be a bit off topic for this list.

regards

Julian
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