2006/12/27, Marc Ravensbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
- I have an HP Omnibook 5700ct (which refuses to die on me) to be used as the dedicated "firewall" - specs are: pentium 150 Mhz, 80 MB ram, 2- 3GB harddisk, cdrom (non bootable) and floppy.
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What I would like to do is add the following features... 1) DNS server (for my private network only) so that my computers can use kiwi instead of the ISP dns servers (which change from time to time and are really, really slow at times). If kiwi could cache the addresses it would save a _lot_ of time reaching my common websites. This feature doesn't sound difficult, I just need a few tips here and there (package name, sample config)
Easy.
2) transparent web proxy; something along the lines of squid (I believe this is used by ipcop) to cache my frequent websites. I've never set this up by itself before, but again, probably manageable.
Setup is easy (just follow Daniel's instructions), but your hardware is probably to slow, has not really enough RAM (squid loves RAM) and the HDD is a bit to small. It's certainly doable, but it won't be very nice. Note that notebooks are not designed for 24/7 use, so don't be surprised if it fails. Best Martin
