> On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 02:24, JoeHill wrote: > I run Smoothwall as a fire wall. It will run on a p100 or better with 32mb > of > ram and a 1 gig drive. Does not need a moniter or keyboard once set up > This > setup will be more than powerfull enough to protect a home network. Then > run > a decent av scanner to protect the windoz machine from trojens, dialers > ect. > I run Norton or Mcafee, depending on who is offering the best deal at the > time. I have just upgradded my fire wall box to an old celleron 333mx with > 192mb of ram and given my old box to a friend, (p133 32mb ram & 540mb hd). > The old setup protected my 7 pc home network for over 3 years now using > dial > up and broadband. Here is the address. > http://www.smoothwall.org > Isn't that a bit of overkill for a firewall? I was running a firewall, web server (static pages) and e-mail gateway on a P-75 with 32Mb RAM and a 210MB hard drive for a few years. (Ok - I know I should not have been running the WEB server on the firewall machine...)
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