Mark Robinson wrote: >Talking of debian, there are a number of things that I'm not sure >about/haven't had time to investigate... > > Don't know about Debian, but....
>1) What firewall packages are people using > Firestarter - simple enough for me to understand and seeems reasonably secure. >2) Does isdn work ok? > with Linux? Yes. With a demand dial setup, the dial-up is immediate and you're instantly on-line. I don't know how well channel bonding works though - I've got a box with a Fritz (BT Hgihway) card providing access at a remote site on a single channel. You might want to put something like diald in front of the interface as a lot of programs generate unnecessary DNS lookups (e.g. even if you setup sendmail to defer all internet Email, it still tries to resolve hostnames on receipt of messages). >3) Is a stable amavis/sendmail available? I can only see it in testing not >stable > > When I had such a beast (Amavis 0.2) it was very stable, although a little sluggish. HTH Colin _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
