--- Kapil Sethi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> IMHO, Get hold of a old RH 6.2 or 7 distro and dont install any of > the > xwindows stuff. Why a old distro ? I would get an older less supported kernel plus it seems kernel 2.6 is supposed to be better for firewalls - I cant confirm though. Ofcourse no graphical interface or any productivity applications on it. It will be just sitting quitely protecting my home network :). > The system will be able to handle a small network very easily. > > If you are going to use squid, take care to allocate a separate > partition for squid cache. It's a 4GB hard disk plus the only hard disk I/O happening on it will be for the cache - I would need specific reasons for having a separate partition for squid. What I would be more interested in is what kind of resource constraints come into the picture if I install Squid. Also what about filesystem - is squid's cache preferential towards any specific filesystem ? I was considering going for reiserfs assuming the cache will be full of small files. Mithun __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
