What GUI or do you mean the web interface? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Jones Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 12:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Security Firewall] new home-network setup - hints requested
I am running MNF 8.2 on a P133 with 64mb of ram (another paper weight :). Not sure of the HDD size at this moment but it's no bigger than a few gig, if that. I'm also running the gui, works fine. Throughput is fine as well. David > 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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