Hmmm, not to rain on your parade but my usual recomendation is to buy something like
a Linksys BEFSR41. http://www.linksys.com/scripts/features.asp?part=BEFSR41
It's a 4 port switch with a firewall and DHCP server designed to share a cablemodem
or DSL connection through a house. It's $169 online and saves a lot of hassle.
Then you can fire up a Linux box as a server for file and print sharing and perhaps
as a web site, etc. The Linksys box supports NAT so you can present your internal
web server through the firewall.
I know that's a mouthful but it's a cheap and easy solution that should meet your
needs for a home network, the major portion of which is your internet connectivity.
If you have dial connection(s) there are similar devices for that but it's far more
viable with a high speed connection.
Rich Payne wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Paul Lussier wrote:
>
> >
> > In a message dated: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 07:05:28 EST
> > Rich Payne said:
> >
> > >Let me put it this way...unless you have very deep pockets the limiting
> > >factor will be your connection to the internet, not your routing box. Last
> > >I heard a 486 could confortable route a T1 line w/o any trouble.
> >
> > Absolutely, though, I probably wouldn't run a DHCP/BOOTP server on the router/
> > firewall system. It can definitely be done and with little impact upon the
> > performance of the router/firewall box, but for security reasons, I tend to
> > not run anything I don't have to on these types of systems.
>
> Yes, Paul raises a good point here that I should have touched upon. Do not
> run anything on that system that it doesn't need, this includes:
>
> Any of the r programs (rsh, rexec, etc....) (edit your /etc/ietd.conf)
> Anything to do with NFS, NIS
> Telnet, use ssh instead
> Don't run anon-ftp unless you really need it
> X
> imap,pop, even sendmail if you don't need it
> DHCP/BOOTP
> SWAT (Samba config), LinuxConf
> talk etc.....
>
> --rdp
>
> Rich Payne
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