Todd wrote: > If you are really interested in good security, find youself an old computer. > A low end pentium, like a 90, or 100, or something will do quite nicely. > You can get by with a 386 and a 3 1/2" floppy, but you can't 'tinker' with > it :) Anyway. Install a copy of Linux and set up ipchains and ip > masquerade. this gives you NAT and a a very nice firewall (as long as you > have a strong ruleset) :). You can also install tripwire and portsentry .. > both nifty anti-intrusion tools. There's a bit of a learning curve, but > there are HOW-TO manuals all over the Internet. I was able to firgure it > all out in about 5 afternoons of reading how-to's and just messing around. > If you aren't interested in playing around with something like that, though, > the Wingate solution will work fine.
I found a distribution called e-smith (www.e-smith.org) which is excellent (IMHO). I installed it on an old P166 with a 10GB drive in it. Installation was a breeze and configuration was so simple. I have it installed as an Internet server/gateway. e-smith also provides ibays which you can configure to be available to the internal network, or both internal and external networks. I have a few set up for things like shared data and an mp3 jukebox etc... These are secure to the outside world. e-smith has everything you need to, email server, http server, dhcp etc etc etc... I would recommend it to anyone... even those who haven't done anything with linux before... it's VERY simple! N -- Nick Texidor ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
