James wrote: >Hello, > >I have an old firewall (3 ether ports) on a amd K6 166MHz >machine. It ran OpenBSD just fine, but, it's long overdue for >a upgrade. I was considering Gentoo, but, with only 128 meg >of ram, this old, tired machine might not be up to it. > >Is there a solution using Gentoo? Maybe a binary installation, >specific for firewalls? I could use Debian(sarge) but >I'd rather use gentoo, or a gentoo derivative. I'm not >sure I'm ready to build everything on another machine >and transfer it over, but I could use distcc during >installation and to support maintenance compililations? > >An easy path to a (gentoo)firewall from an installation CD >would be keen. A firewall is all the machine has to do. > >Ideas and thoughts? > >James > > > Hi, Think you could check "home router" doc in Docs-section on w.g.o, but it seems you only need a kernel, iptables and optionally some firewall-config-system if you use such (shorewall comes in mind ;) Could use a minimal system after install + logger, cron, etc. Check iptables deps to see. Plus use distcc if too slow. HTH. Rumen
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