Phillip Deackes wrote: > > I have spent much of the day getting more and more confused about > firewalls and Linux. I am having a cable modem installed soon and want my > system to be secure. I have only the one computer, and am running Woody.
I use Coyote Linux (http://www.coyotelinux.com/) on a floppy disk. I run it in a beat-to-hell Packard Bell P60 with two Linksys PCI cards. I /would/ say that you can easily pick up a similar machine for $50US, and a home networking starter kit for about the same, but that's quite a chunk of money to protect one computer. Alternately, I'd recommend a Linksys Broadband Router (seen at Best Buy last week for $80US), one with a single port. If you later decide to get more PCs inside your firewall, and cost is still an issue, you could still use the before-mentioned $50 home network kit and attach the uplink port to the broadband router. But that's just my $0.02US ;) -- -=|JP|=- "Why, oh, why didn't I take the blue pill?" Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions -o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.atipa.com /\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | 816-595-3000 x1550 _\_V 6D04 39E0 CAE9 9ADA 2CA3 2EBE 898A 6C37 CA1E A29C
