> 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...)

Mikkel
-- 
   Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.



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