newbie  

Re: [newbie] Couple Questions

Sridhar Dhanapalan
Mon, 27 Aug 2001 01:27:41 -0700

On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:16, David Cox wrote:
> i have a 486 and a 233. i want to use one for a firewall only and one for a
> server only. Can someone tell me which one i should use for which, and
> about how much hard drive space each one will take. also since i dont know
> a lot of command line stuff, i will have to use a inteface. (probably kde).
> What program should i use for the firewall. I'm going to use Apache as
> server for obvious reasons.......

A firewall does not require much computational power, so make the 486 the 
firewall. The best thing would be to use Mandrake SNF as your distro, since 
it is a version of Mandrake 7.2 specificialy modified to be a secure 
firewall. Another alternative (although not as good) would be to use a recent 
version of Red Hat (since it is compiled for i386) with Bastille 
(http://www.bastille-linux.org) for security (it is far more than just a 
firewall).

Also, PLEASE don't post to the list in HTML. All messages should be text only.

-- 
Sridhar Dhanapalan.
        "There are two major products that come from Berkeley:
        LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
                -- Jeremy S. Anderson


Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? 
Go to http://wwww.mandrakestore.com