I'm thinking of setting up my Mac 8500 with Debian PowerPC to use it as a firewall and IP Masquerading server. Does this work OK, and are there any issues I should know about?
Like does the kernel support for this work OK on PowerPC, and have the user space utilities been ported to PowerPC? Would I be better off with a 2.2 or a 2.4 kernel - I understand 2.4 has much richer support for packet filtering. I had been intending to buy a cheap x86 PC to do this but things are kind of tight lately, and I don't expect to be working in Mac OS on my Mac much in the near future, so I might as well do this with my Mac. Presently the 3 machines in my house are sharing a 56k dialup connection (broadband not available in the Maine woods) through an NT box running WinRoute Pro. WinRoute corrupts tcp data transmitted through it; when I download a compressed file, it won't decompress, and when I use secure shell through it, the SSH session locks up after a few minutes. Also SMTP mail sometimes can't be sent through it. I'd like to stop using WinRoute and adopt a Free Software solution. At least I could fix it if there were problems. Thanks Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.
