Gavin Treadgold wrote: > I've been contemplating setting up a proxy and a firewall for quite a while. > Would it be best to set them up on one machine, or separate the duties?
There are two, of many, distributions which do this very well on an old '[345]86 or whatever. http://www.smoothwall.org/ and http://ipcop.sf.net/ The former, which is actually pretty good, is run by a bunch of sad individuals who are very severely challenged socially. Their attitude caused the fork creating the latter who seem to be a pretty helpful bunch. > Also, what specs (ie ram and hd) would be useful for a proxy for a home/work > network with 2-3 users? I have an old '486 with 16Megs RAM and 125 Megs disk. I works fine for 2 users, but I don't do any filtering or junkbusting. Probably be ok for 3 users but no more. > And given the amount of graphical crap found on the > net today, and the volume issues that are being raised by ISP's, is it > easier to cut out images from the likes of doubleclick via squid or > junkbuster, or both? Or you could use Mozilla as your browser. It allows you to eliminate images on a server by server basis. We have found that the squid cache in the IPCop saves a lot of traffic. > I've successfully set up SSH and SCP and the secure remote login works > wonderfully through the M11 now. I've tested it on a couple of trips > recently and it was great. Thank you all for your help!!! > > The next stage... well, as mentioned above a firewall and proxy would be > nice and I will investigate those. I also have an imap server running which > I dump archived mail into from my win2k laptop. Is the easiest way to do > this remotely going to be by an SSL imap connection? How do I go about > setting this up? There are lots of dicussions about this sort of thing in the IPCop mail lists which are archived. > Again, thanks in advance for any help! It is most appreciated! -- C.
