Re: Ubuntu install & dialup

[Rik Tindall]

yuri wrote:
I would never put a desktop OS on a box that has a modem *and* a NIC.
 

Most home office LANs would be running like that, or has ADSL more than 
half the consumer market now?

The only reason a box would have both is when it's acting as a
gateway, in which case a firewall OS is called for.
Mdk is a desktop OS. IPCop is a firewall OS.
 

And RedHat9 has a downloadable firewall script, that runs with iptables. 
Feeds laptop, no obvious problems as yet.
(Other than can I find the equivalent for an easily ubdateable distro 
like Ubuntu or SuSE? - later.)

Yuri
More sensible is to extra mile and learn IPCop for a P100 firewall box, 
I agree.  |  ToDoList.

Thanks,
Rik
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