Kevin Holmquist wrote:
>
> Hi Jason,
>
> My first firewall was a pentium 100, 32 meg ram, 850 meg hard drive, and no
> video card, so yes it can be done. There are a couple of gotchas, though.
>
> First, forget about running anything else except a firewall. Second,
> although it may be possible to install Linux without video, I don't know how
> to do it. Third, you will have to do a custom installation and be very
> careful about what you install to stay under 400M. Fourth, and trust me on
> this one 'cause I was there, some things are just not easy to do over telnet
> (i.e. troubleshooting why the box won't boot).
>
> My advice to you is to get a larger hard drive and at least temporarily add
> a graphics card to install Redhat. If possible, have a friend familiar with
> installing Linux help you. Yours will deinitely not be a 'standard'
> install.
>
> Most of the info I used to install ipchains was in the HOWTOS at
> www.linux.org. the ipchains howto and firewall howto were very helpful.
>
> A firewall is going to add to your latency; how much will depend on the
> system, what else is running on the system, the amount of traffic, how
> complex your ruleset is, how many system are being masqed, your connection,
> your isp's connection, etc. etc. Realistically, you shouldn't notice a
> difference (I have more trouble with lag from Battlenet than anything
> else!).
>
> One final note: (legal disclaimer on) check with your isp before you set
> this up. In my case I had to switch from cable modem to DSL because my
> cable company doesn't allow Linux, servers, or Nat/masqing (legal disclaimer
> off).
>
The SmoothWall distro is firewall/Nat/caching DNS/... that's based
on the VA Linux (RH) distro and paired down to ~50M. Install easily
and works quite well; even has a web frontend. Still needs some work,
but a great place to start. It's at www.smoothwall.org.
Best
Cokey
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