I'm not sure how one would go about setting up a firewall/gateway machine. I suppose you could setup a machine running the display for a gateway/firewall, but remember, the inherit user for LTSP is the fact that the work is done one a single source box, the rest of the workstations are nothing more than displays of the work being done on the server. However if you are looking for other small distributions for this type of project, I suggest you look at the LEAF project (Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall). I am currently using this setup based on the Dachstein dist. You can find more information at http://leaf.sourceforge.net . I am running my gateway/firewall machine on a Pentium 166MMX w/ 32mb ram. Runs everything great. It acts as a DHCP server, ipsec gateway/server/tunnel, and firewall. It is very configurable, with awesome support from the mailing list. My setup is as follows
Internet - Home (LEAF/Gateway) - 192.168.3.x to multiple clients. I have setup my LTSP box to only act as a tftpd server (which works with a little effort) and then serves the xserver just fine. I am currently working on getting the xserver to work across the ipsec tunnel.. I should have that completed tonight. I'll post my findings as they occour.. Joey -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Johnson Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 10:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] Setup for firewalls/gateways etc I'm interested in finding out if (and how) people are using LTSP for setup of non- workstation boxes for things like firewalls and gateways It seems to me that it would be good for this ... if there's a hardware problems, just swap the network card into a new box and reboot (once it's been setup) I also think that it should be possible to do set these up using rc scripts at boot up What are pros and cons of this method? -- Brian Johnson, P. Eng [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
