At 10:25 PM 7/31/00 -0700, you wrote: >Alan, > >I'm doing exactly what you want to do. My ISP is Sprint Broadband >(formerly Speedchoice). > >First, you have picked the appropiate hardware - a 486 makes a great >router/firewall/server. You will want two NICs in it. One should be a ---- I have two cards left over from other ventures, a hub and all the network cable I need. >I also run RH 6.2. your firewall will consist of a startup script >(calling ipchains many times) to do packet filtering and masquerading, >and possibly a tcpwrappers config file set as a second level of >protection. I set up my firewall script from the following site: > >http://linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/firewall/index.html I looked at that once and will use it to make a script for study. This and the one from Der will help. ---- >You will also need to think about whether you want to run an internal >DNS, web server, sendmail or some other email MTA. Also, you want to >consider whether you want your internal clients to run pop or imap. >Also, you probably want to get openssh and possibly openssl for secure >access from the outside. Also, Samba is a must if you have windows >machines on your internal network, and can be very helpful even if you >don't. and don't be without Webmin: http://www.webmin.com/webmin/ for >system administration. With webmin, I run my 486 from a browser - the >machine has no KB, mouse or terminal. Cool! All of this is something I want to get to, eventually. >Definitely, you should apply for your own domain name. Got one. Had it for years. No one wants to buy it from me for what greatdomains.com says it is worth so I guess I'll keep it. >I'm sure I've forgotten many little things. It's so much fun, I can't >get it all into one email :-) > >If you would like to discuss my experiences with all this, don't >hesitate to email. I can send you sample config files, etc. I think I need to digest for a little while before I know more detailed things to ask and examples to request. Thanks to all the help! Alan /------------------------------------------ |Alan Dayley www.adtron.com |Software Engineer 602-735-0300 x331 |ADayley@adtron.com | |Adtron Corporation |3710 E. University Drive, Suite 5 |Phoenix, AZ 85034 \-------------------------------------------