I'm glad to hear your confession as a die hard slacker. ;) You can't be pink (if you know what I mean). ;)
A Celeron 333 w/ 64mb of ram for a firewall for 30 pcs? Impressive, and I bet Slackware is a good candidate for the distribution to be used. Good work there. :)
I've used gShield before I switched to monowall, and just like you said, it works and is easy to configure. If it weren't for gShield, I'd be clueless on starting to use F/OSS firewalls.
Mike
Mhac Janapin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Eri,
I'm a die hard slacker and you know that :-P
But I want to suggest using the DSL modem for internet routing (lesser power consumption, etc.) This is the most desirable solution if:
a) your DSL modem has NAT and DHCP built-in.
b) you are wary of high electric bills.
But if your DSL modem is dumb, then you can go ahead and make your slackbox the fw/router.
I'd suggest gShield. Fast and easy to configure. ANd it works. I have 30+ PCs connected to my (don't faint) Celeron 333 64MB RAM. Of course, running bare-bones slackware. :)
Here's the ascii setup:
---line from ISP - - - >[DSL Modem]- - ->[Switch]- - -8/16 ports- -> ALL PCs
if using slackbox:
--->line from ISP--->[DSLModem]--[eth0 slackbox eth1]--->[switch]-->clients
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