Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-06-01 Thread Adam Hardy
Douglas A. Tutty on 30/05/09 14:19, wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:18:56PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: Jan Willem Stumpel jstum...@planet.nl writes: Csanyi Pal wrote: So: can one install on it say a Debian GNU/Linux Lenny? Mind that it is a headless device. Everything has to be done through

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:18:56PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: Jan Willem Stumpel jstum...@planet.nl writes: Csanyi Pal wrote: So: can one install on it say a Debian GNU/Linux Lenny? Mind that it is a headless device. Everything has to be done through ssh (or local telnet). It has no

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,28.May.09, 21:50:26, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: I also do not quite understand why you should want to use Lenny, rather than Etch, on a server. Sure, you can still use etch, but next February the security support will end and you have to upgrade to lenny anyway. Regards, Andrei

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-29 Thread Csanyi Pal
Jan Willem Stumpel jstum...@planet.nl writes: Csanyi Pal wrote: So: can one install on it say a Debian GNU/Linux Lenny? Mind that it is a headless device. Everything has to be done through ssh (or local telnet). It has no cd-rom drive, keyboard, or monitor. But it is just a Debian system

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:18:56PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: Jan Willem Stumpel jstum...@planet.nl writes: Csanyi Pal wrote: So: can one install on it say a Debian GNU/Linux Lenny? Mind that it is a headless device. Everything has to be done through ssh (or local telnet). It has no

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-28 Thread Csanyi Pal
Jan Willem Stumpel jstum...@planet.nl writes: Csanyi Pal wrote: What is the recommended new hardware for firewall/gateway or for a web, mail, file printer server at a small home network? Any advices will be appreciated! I am now using a Bubba 2, made by a Swedish company:

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 08:35:02AM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: Jan Willem Stumpel jstum...@planet.nl writes: Csanyi Pal wrote: What is the recommended new hardware for firewall/gateway or for a web, mail, file printer server at a small home network? Any advices will be appreciated!

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-28 Thread Csanyi Pal
Alex Samad a...@samad.com.au writes: On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 08:35:02AM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: Jan Willem Stumpel jstum...@planet.nl writes: Csanyi Pal wrote: What is the recommended new hardware for firewall/gateway or for a web, mail, file printer server at a small home network?

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-28 Thread Muzer
Csanyi Pal wrote: Alex Samad a...@samad.com.au writes: On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 08:35:02AM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: Jan Willem Stumpel jstum...@planet.nl writes: Csanyi Pal wrote: What is the recommended new hardware for firewall/gateway or for a web, mail, file

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-28 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Csanyi Pal wrote: Yes, with Debian Etch, but not with Debian Lenny! So: can one install on it say a Debian GNU/Linux Lenny? I suppose you can, although I didn't try it. I think you can install anything you want; I heavily customised mine (in fact I am no longer using any of the

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-26 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Csanyi Pal wrote: What is the recommended new hardware for firewall/gateway or for a web, mail, file printer server at a small home network? Any advices will be appreciated! I am now using a Bubba 2, made by a Swedish company: http://excito.com/bubba/products/about-bubba.html It runs

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-23 Thread Adam Hardy
Kelly Clowers on 22/05/09 20:56, wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 07:24, Victor Padro vpa...@gmail.com wrote: You can get a Pentium 4 for less than $200 on ebay. I use a Pentium 4 HT, 512MB RAM, 40GB HDD with Pfsense(FreeBSD) as my home firewall/router, and it's very reliable. I would much

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 09:31:14PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: I have at my home a small network: firewall/gateway: Pentium II Class PC box with 64 MB RAM, 5,1 GB HDD server : Pentium IV Class PC box with 2 GB RAM, 60 GB HDD desktop : Pentium IV Class PC box with 2 GB RAM, 2 *

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-22 Thread Victor Padro
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca wrote: On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 09:31:14PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: I have at my home a small network: firewall/gateway: Pentium II Class PC box with 64 MB RAM, 5,1 GB HDD server : Pentium IV Class PC box with 2 GB

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-22 Thread Daryl Styrk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 09:31:14PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: Hi, I have at my home a small network: firewall/gateway: Pentium II Class PC box with 64 MB RAM, 5,1 GB HDD server : Pentium IV Class PC box with 2 GB RAM, 60 GB HDD desktop

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-22 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 07:24, Victor Padro vpa...@gmail.com wrote: You can get a Pentium 4 for less than $200 on ebay. I use a Pentium 4 HT, 512MB RAM, 40GB HDD with Pfsense(FreeBSD) as my home firewall/router, and it's very reliable. I would much rather use an Athlon XP or a PIII than a P4

What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-21 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hi, I have at my home a small network: firewall/gateway: Pentium II Class PC box with 64 MB RAM, 5,1 GB HDD server : Pentium IV Class PC box with 2 GB RAM, 60 GB HDD desktop : Pentium IV Class PC box with 2 GB RAM, 2 * 320 GB HDD On all these PC boxes run Debian GNU/Linux:

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-21 Thread Mark Shroyer
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 09:31:14PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: I have at my home a small network: firewall/gateway: Pentium II Class PC box with 64 MB RAM, 5,1 GB HDD server : Pentium IV Class PC box with 2 GB RAM, 60 GB HDD desktop : Pentium IV Class PC box with 2 GB RAM, 2 *