Norm Higgs wrote: > Hello everyone. Just wanted to introduce myself, I'm Norm and I want to > learn Linux! I already have Fedora Core 3 installed on my Windows box and > when I get time I will statrt messing around with it. My ultimate goal is to > add several more Linux boxes to my network to use as web and mail servers, > and one to serve as a hardware firewall. I'm behind a D-link network switch > right now - I know, terribly unsecure, but I didn't know squat back then.
Hmmmm... a familiar name.... are you the Norm Higgs on the 1PCBuilder list? Welcome to the list. As to 'not knowing squat'... the more I learn, the more I realise how little I actually know.<g> I have been using Linux Red Hat for several years, now (since Red Hat 7 ...currently running RH Enterprise 3) and also have two Win2k Pro workstations on my mini-LAN, behind the RH Internet-connected machine's firewall. This is more secure than having each machine connected to the Internet router, unless you have a firewall in the router. At the moment, I am using a dial-up modem, but next week I will be getting a DSL connection, and plan on connecting the DSL modem to a 'NETGEAR RP614 4-Port Cable /DSL Network Firewall Router', and from there, to my various computers, once I am sure its firewall is doing its job properly. > I'm sure I will have lots of dumb quetions to ask, but I'll do my best to > figure it out myself before asking, I promise. Make sure to visit the List FAQ at: http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/linfaq.html ...to see if the answer you seek is there, and to consult the man pages in your Linux installation before posting a question. Google is also your friend. Also, if you figure out the answer to a question you had, all on your own, it is a good idea to post your discovery here, because this is a newbie list, and there is a good chance that if you were puzzled, so might other list members, newbies themselves... be in need of your discovery. -- -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ . ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hetmi02/M=362335.6886445.7839731.1510227/D=groups/S=1705006580:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1122988819/A=2894361/R=0/SIG=13jmebhbo/*http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/education/digitaldivide/?source=YAHOO&cmpgn=GRP&RTP=http://groups.yahoo.com/";>In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
