As you've chosen Ubuntu and are not coming up to speed with it, I'd
stick with it as it will do the job.
Ubuntu is Debian based, so anything that Neil Stockbridge has published
on his web site will help you out.
IPtables/Netfilter will already been on the system.
Tell us where you've got to so far.
Have you got the computer talking to the internet?
Have you installed Squid? I would use Squid rather than Pond because a)
I've never even heard of pond, b) because Neil has documented
instructions on how to set up Squid to be transparent - eg Exactly what
you want to do.
How are you connecting to the internet? DSL, Cable, Dialup?
What have you got connected to the second network card? Switch, Hub,
router, cross over cable?
How many computers are you trying to set up and what OS's are they running?
Is there any wifi involved?
Are you expecting to use this machine as a windows file store? ie Do you
need samaba?
Are you wanting to run a family mail server? Ok, now I'm getting a
little of track.
See: http://mozart.amiton.ltd.uk/community-network/howto/index.html
See: http://www.zen9658.zen.co.uk/sysadmin/
HTH
Cheers Don
Steve Holdoway wrote:
Personally, I'd just install a dedicated distro... IPCop being my favourite.
From what I read, you're not using it for anything else???
Steve
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:38:11 +1300
chris bayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As a firewall box, I would think that the critical component is
IPtables/Netfilter to do all your NAT and port filtering, after that
squid as a caching proxy and squidguard/dansguardian for content
filtering and set up IPtables to force transparent proxying though squid
so that the kids can't side step the content filter by turning off the
proxy in their browsers!
ChrisB
amoafo wrote:
Hello,
Sorry I should have mentioned that I have two NIC installed on this
computer and so far I have installed LAMP but that is something to use
down the track.
Osei
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*From:* amoafo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
*Sent:* 31 January 2007 13:01
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Linux as a firewall server
Hello,
I have installed Ubuntu on my newly acquired (second hand) computer.
My aim is to use this as a firewall server between my computers at
home and my ISP. I am thinking of squid or pound but I guess there
must be a whole heap of better other stuff out there for this. Also if
you think pound or squid is the way to go, I would not mind any help
as to how to configure it.
Rick was really good to me the last time when I wanted to upgrade my
mandrake.
Any ideas will be very welcome
Osei
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