[EUG-LUG:5156] Re: Setting up a gate for a private LAN?

[Seth Cohn]

Cory Petkovsek wrote:

> You can use Mandrake as your firewall.

Bleh.  Mandrake as a firewall???  Bleh.  Mandrake is NOT secure enough
or maintainance free to make it a good firewall.

http://www.coyotelinux.com

> As kbob suggested, read the Firewall/IP Masquerade/Kernel howtos.

Too much work.

The easy answer:

a 486 with a floppy drive and 2 NICs

a coyote linux disk

a hub


and you are all set.