Hello Colin, Friday, 04 October 2002, you wrote:
CM> Mark Robinson wrote: >>Talking of debian, there are a number of things that I'm not sure >>about/haven't had time to investigate... >> >> CM> Don't know about Debian, but.... >>1) What firewall packages are people using >> CM> Firestarter - simple enough for me to understand and seeems reasonably CM> secure. Thanks, I'll look it up >>2) Does isdn work ok? >> CM> with Linux? Yes. With a demand dial setup, the dial-up is immediate and CM> you're instantly on-line. I don't know how well channel bonding works CM> though - I've got a box with a Fritz (BT Hgihway) card providing access CM> at a remote site on a single channel. You might want to put something CM> like diald in front of the interface as a lot of programs generate CM> unnecessary DNS lookups (e.g. even if you setup sendmail to defer all CM> internet Email, it still tries to resolve hostnames on receipt of CM> messages). I'm using ISDN on Linux, in fact good ISDN support was the reason I chose SuSE. >>3) Is a stable amavis/sendmail available? I can only see it in testing not >>stable >> >> CM> When I had such a beast (Amavis 0.2) it was very stable, although a CM> little sluggish. Again I'm using it on lots of SuSE servers, but I was having trouble finding info about it on Debian :-( Mark _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
