Router/Firewall

Carl Parrish cparrish@computerprep.com
Wed, 24 May 2000 02:53:45 -0700


I found Coyote, is this the one you were talking about?

Carl Parrish
Webmaster
ComputerPREP.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Brown <kevin_brown@uswest.net>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 12:11 AM
Subject: Re: Router/Firewall


> try freshmeat.net for the firewall on a floppy.  don't have to worry about
it
> needing much space then.
>
> Carl Parrish wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying the same thing only using my
> > 486SX2 50 MHZ
> > 420 MB Hard Drive
> > and 4 MB of RAM
> >
> > I realize that with that amount of ram there is no way I'm going to get
any
> > of the GUIs to work and honesty I dont' care for any of them so I'm not
> > worried about that but are there any firewalls that will work on this
> > machine (I'm thinking it'll be next to impossible to get more memory for
> > it). I have access to Red Hat or the Corel distribution (which I
understand
> > is really just Debian) . Are there better distribution to work pared
down
> > like this? I'll only be using it for the firewall.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Carl Parrish
> > Webmaster
> > ComputerPREP.com
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Joel Dudley <joel@silverw.com>
> > To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 8:24 PM
> > Subject: Re: Router/Firewall
> >
> > > E-mail me tomorrow and I will send you a generic script from work.
> > >
> > > - Joel
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Samson, Eric <SamsonE@simplexnet.com>
> > > To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 10:23 AM
> > > Subject: Router/Firewall
> > >
> > >
> > > > Ok, I am trying to put together a firewall/router box on my @home
> > > connection
> > > > and this is the hardware I have so far:
> > > >
> > > > Old Cyrix 6x86 200 (acutally a 166 in the fine print)
> > > > cd rom
> > > > floppy drive
> > > > 32 MB of RAM
> > > > 428 MB hard drive
> > > >
> > > > I am not so sure if the hard drive is of sufficient size... Once I
get
> > the
> > > > box assembled, I want to install Red Hat 6.2 on it... Can anyone
point
> > me
> > > > in the right direction for documentation or recommend any good books
> > which
> > > > can help me get started on what I need to do after the install?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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