Hi everyone I've got a spare Pentium 200 collecting dust at the moment so I decided to turn it into my gateway box for my home machine.It's got I think what's needed to run Mandrake 9.0, i.e. 64 MB of RAM, 2 Gig disk and an adequate CPU (I think) plus 2 spare NICs I can use (although one is a USB one).
Can anyone point me to a place where I can read up on how to go about setting up a gateway box with a single purpose in life of being my firewall or maybe briefly outline what I need to do? A couple of words about my main machine - it's a dual boot Mandrake 9.0/Win XP Pro, I use both systems for my work (Photoshop, Flash on XP) so I guess I need Samba to be running when I'm using XP, I'm connected via a cable through DHCP, I'm planning to run Apache from time to time for testing (I do web development) but no other usual services, they will be all shut down. Any suggestions? Thanks Nikolai PS - my cable connection came with an USB NIC and I had no luck making it work, back then I was running Mandrake 8.2, so I had to replace it with something less fancy. Now I'm wondering, since I'm running Mandrake 9 now if that USB NIC is supported now. It's an SMC 2206 USB/Eth thingy.
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