On Thursday 09 December 2004 18:39, Jim wrote: > Ricardo, > > I've been running one on a P3 233 with 256MB RAM... I would imagine 64 > would be fine for a home network. > > Also, since there is no GUI, you needn't worry. :) > > I would say give it a shot and see what happens. :) > > jmho > > -Jim
Thanks! I give it a try! After all I can learn better, right? (in the mean time I will keep the present machine running and ready to take over!) > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ricardo Castanho de > Oliveira Freitas > Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 3:24 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Security Firewall] new home-network setup - hints requested > > > Hi, > > I�ve tried MNF before but for the time I considered using just shorewall > for my home network. > > It�s been great and, that�s the point to consider now. > > Currently I have 1 PII-400 w/ 512 Ram and 2 hd, cd-rw and cd-player with > Mdk9.2 as a firewall and mail server. ADSL dhcp connection. > > The intended config is as follow: > > I have 1 old machine Pentium 266 w/ 64 ram and 2 hd and cd-player (all of > them > have also floppy) > > I would like to use this machine for my future firewall only (I can see no > other use for it!). Too big for paper-weight ;-) > > So, is it possible to install MNF on such machine? > (no GUI required! CLI would be fine!) > > I�ve heard about distributions based on boot-from-CD method, but I would > like > to stick with mdk and shorewall. > > I intend to move the mail server (and everything else to the and athlon (?) > 1.6 and leave the PII-400 for my daughter (windows user, yet!) > > Any hint on that 'poor old� machine? > > Ricardo Castanho > Brazil -- ========================================================== Linux user # 102240 => [EMAIL PROTECTED] user => 100% M$ FREE ========================================================== Thu, 09 Dec 2004 19:25:00 -0200 19:25:00 up 1 day, 21:02, 4 users, load average: 0.37, 0.25, 0.26 Bushydo -- the way of the shrub. Bonsai!
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