firewall

[robert jorgenson]

From thier site it appears you need a 20MB cd iso image to install smoothwall ... am i missing something somewhere?

On 05 Jun 2002 20:00:31 -0700
"Bryce C." <plug@bryceco.net> wrote:

> I've got a box nearly identical to that running smoothwall for my
> network.  I've actually got a 13Gb in it, (yes I know it's overkill but
> it's for caching my little modem connection).  It did have a floppy and
> cdrom but I pulled those for other computers because it didn't need
> them.  Just the floppy drive was all that I needed for install w/network
> option.  Best router in my opinion it doesn't take forever to boot as
> with floppies.  Also, great user interface!  (Especially once you edit
> the files and remove the banners!)  Just try it and you'll be amazed.
> 
> Bryce C.
> Network Administrator
> CoBryce Communications
> Bryce @ BryceCo . Net
> 
> On 05 Jun 2002 18:36:27 -0700, robert jorgenson wrote:
> > Ok i got this P1 200 mhz box here i want to turn into a firewall, its got a floppy drive and a 2 gig HD(couldn't find anything smaller), a 3com NIC, a realtek NIC, 64 megs of RAM and i was wondering what would be a good small firewall distro that i could install without a cdrom. Right now my setup is like this ...
> >                                   
> >                                             Parents Wintendo Box
> >                                           /
> > Internet--qwest gateway box--4 port hub--[
> >                                           \
> >                                             8 port hub--My main box
> > 
> > Im thinking it would be best to put the firewall infront of the first 4 port hub but my parents are wierd and i doubt they would let me do that, so i will probably be putting it in front of my hub. I really just want something to keep unwanted things out of my box. Plus i also want to set up a web/ftp/email server sometime in the near future but thats soemthing else alltogether :) Any help is apreciated thanks :)
> >                                  
> > ________________________________________________
> > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail.
> > 
> > PLUG-discuss mailing list  -  PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
> > 
> 
> 
> ________________________________________________
> See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail.
> 
> PLUG-discuss mailing list  -  PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>