--- 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 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
