Altough I know floppy distro works absolutely well, in general i dont
like to use them. As you mentioned, they are 100% limited and nothing can
be done, specially if you need disk writings. I just cant imagine a
firewall with no logging at all !!! Using a squid proxy would save about
15% on your www bandwidth ( depends on each case, but 10-15% is generally
ok ).
And, the most important, IDE disks are as cheap as they are fast .....
So, if you need a firewall for your home ( connect 2-3 machines through
adsl ), I'd recommend a floppy firewall. For ANY other firewall machine i
would strongly recommend a full firewall installation based on the distro
you're used to work. I personally would recommend redhat, as I told in
last message. But if you're used to SuSe, GREAT, use it ! Slack ? Use it !
Debian ? Use it ! No matter which distro you'll use if you really know
what you're doing.
Sincerily,
Leonardo Rodrigues
Citando George Vieira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Works wonders but 1.68MB is very limited especially if you want IPSEC
> then
> it's very hard to get it to fit. I just got 1-3KB left on the floppy
> after
> removing alot of stuff..
