Putting aside the Web server piece, you can easily do the firewall/router on a 486/33 with 16 megs RAM, a floppy drive, and NO hard disk. You do it with a specialized Linux distribution like Linux Router Project (http://lrp.c0wz.com) or several others. Since you plan to have "another computer running Linux", you can have it run a public Web server (and a mail server and authoritative DNS server, if you need either or both) using port forwarding (ipportfw in 2.0.x kernels, ipmasqadm in 2.2.x kernels). This is the cheapest way to do what you want; I often see such hosts for $20-30, requiring you only to add the NIC ($10 for 10 mbit; these oldies don't support 100 mbit). These older machines typically won't boot without a keyboard, so ass $5 for the cheapest one you can find. (These prices are all US - California - Bay Area - but with a bit of looking, they usually can be matched on the Web.) On the other hand, the configuration you ask about -- "Pentium 133Mhz, with 1.5 GB HD, 64 MB RAM" -- would probably do fine as a combined router/firewall/Web server, using any of the standard full-size Linux distributions. The only hesitation would be if the Web site were very large; then you might need more disk capacity. At 03:08 PM 5/12/00 -0400, Jean-Louis LeTortorec wrote: >Hi: > >I would like to install a gateway, at home, so as to run it as a >firewall for the Internet, "hub" for the emails for a couple of >several users, and linked by Ethernet to another computer running >Linux, and 2 running M$soft. > >What type of computer should I get? It would be running mainly >Apache, firewall, and an Ethernet connection. The connection to >the Internet would be done by a 56k modem for now, with a possible >enhancement to a DSL/ADSL. So, no monitor (no KDE or GNOME needed), >no keyboard... Do you think that a Pentium 133Mhz, with 1.5 GB HD, 64 >MB RAM would be sufficient? >Or what should be the minimum configuration should I get? (lowest >budget). ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"--- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
