Robin said: > my home network has:
I don't think I've actually said this on list, and probably should. This weekend I productively replaced my win2k box that was on the outside (ouch!) with a box built out of spare parts running smoothwall[0].. If I'd been running reasonable modern hardware the whole thing would have installed straight out of the box[1]. Had a bit (a lot) of trouble with the naff ISA NE2000 compatible network card (that is kinda plug and play but not really...just enough to make things complicated) until the gareth fiddled with the bios settings. Worked no problems at all with the random PCI network card I was using for the internal network. Had replacing the NE2000 with another PCI card been an option without having to phone up blueyonder (who lock down your mac address) I would have done so. The whole thing took no more than three minutes to install off of CD once I'd got that flaky network card working and the questions were all nobrainers (are you sure you want to continue? Which network card is the internal one? Do you want to use a ISDN/USB ADSL line?) Most of the complicated stuff can be fiddled with with the web interface (all perl 5 wrapper scripts - yey!) after reboot. Nice. firewalls++[2] Later. Mark. [0] http://www.smoothwall.org/ http://www.ordior.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/BySwFAQ.html [1] well off the CD image I downloaded - 23MB if anyone's interested [2] Of course firewalls don't help you in the end if you start exposing services. Which is kinda what you have to do with boxen like london.pm.org if they're going to be useful...oh well. -- s'' Mark Fowler London.pm Bath.pm http://www.twoshortplanks.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ';use Term'Cap;$t=Tgetent Term'Cap{};print$t->Tputs(cl);for$w(split/ +/ ){for(0..30){$|=print$t->Tgoto(cm,$_,$y)." $w";select$k,$k,$k,.03}$y+=2}
