Re: [ilugd] Firewall

2005-06-30 Thread Shivkumar Jagannath
hi, im running m0n0wall (www.m0n0.ch/wall) on a P-1 75 MHz, 64 MB RAM and it simply rocks!! One thing it cannot do is run squid. catch ya later (Ive gotta UnWire Life!!!) shiv Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries.

Re: [ilugd] Firewall

2005-06-29 Thread rantu
Hi Mithun, I am running squid, on fedora core 2 and its running very smoothly.This machine is also configured as gateway and routing to my 7 networks all over india. --- Mithun Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hardware: Pentium II 266 MHz, 96MB RAM > > I need to make this a g

Re: [ilugd] Firewall

2005-06-28 Thread Tom Cooper
Mithun Bhattacharya wrote: > > --- Tom Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Don't put squid on such a low spec machine. It has a relatively large > > > Is it really a resource hog ? - other than RAM and a bit of I/O I > suppose. On a samll home network, it is not veryimprtant, but on a bus

Re: [ilugd] Firewall

2005-06-28 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
--- Sibayan Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > squid will NOT perform well in such a slow machine. > > >Hardware: Pentium II 266 MHz, 96MB RAM > > if you use content filtering squid will heavier then and it seems you > want to increase the load with firewalling too. trust me your system > will

Re: [ilugd] Firewall

2005-06-28 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
Couple of issues for me with all BSD variants 1. I have never used it for any appreciable duration. Last time I used it it definitely was not very user friendly. I would also not be able to tweak it to the extent I could tweak a linux box. 2. I am not sure what is their level of support for USB an

Re: [ilugd] Firewall

2005-06-28 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
--- Kapil Sethi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMHO, Get hold of a old RH 6.2 or 7 distro and dont install any of > the > xwindows stuff. Why a old distro ? I would get an older less supported kernel plus it seems kernel 2.6 is supposed to be better for firewalls - I cant confirm though. Ofcour

Re: [ilugd] Firewall

2005-06-28 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
--- Tom Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't put squid on such a low spec machine. It has a relatively large Is it really a resource hog ? - other than RAM and a bit of I/O I suppose. > footprint. The 'net is slow enough as it is. Don't slow it down even Could you elaborate as to how us

Re: [ilugd] Firewall

2005-06-28 Thread Sibayan Das
squid will NOT perform well in such a slow machine. >Hardware: Pentium II 266 MHz, 96MB RAM if you use content filtering squid will heavier then and it seems you want to increase the load with firewalling too. trust me your system will crash within a week. distro is not a prefference but hardwa

Re: [ilugd] Firewall

2005-06-28 Thread Anand Kapoor
I would recommend FreeBSD 5.4.. A.) Secure by default . B.) Sturdy/Stable .. i am running three boxes in production environment facing the internet directly and they work perfectly fine .. and most importantly .. the kind of machines i know you like to build .. this is extremly light .. no unne

Re: [ilugd] Firewall

2005-06-28 Thread Kapil Sethi
- Original Message - From: "Mithun Bhattacharya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hardware: Pentium II 266 MHz, 96MB RAM I need to make this a gateway - routing, firewall and potentially squid too. Mithun IMHO, Get hold of a old RH 6.2 or 7 distro and dont

Re: [ilugd] Firewall

2005-06-28 Thread Tom Cooper
Mithun Bhattacharya wrote: > Hardware: Pentium II 266 MHz, 96MB RAM > > I need to make this a gateway - routing, firewall and potentially squid > too. Don't put squid on such a low spec machine. It has a relatively large footprint. The 'net is slow enough as it is. Don't slow it down even more.

[ilugd] Firewall

2005-06-28 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
Hardware: Pentium II 266 MHz, 96MB RAM I need to make this a gateway - routing, firewall and potentially squid too. I am trying to figure out which would be the best distro/OS to use. Currently I am considering Debian, Slackware and FreeBSD/OpenBSD Most important for me is that everything needs

Re: [ilugd] Firewall on linux server

2004-11-30 Thread Sibayan Das
Hi Abhishek, cPanel will be a better option than webmin. and you can try APF (http://www.rfxnetworks.com/apf.php) for your firewall issue. but RH 9.0 is not a good option for security. APF is based on iptables and it is easily configurable. but firewall is not the ultimate solution for security, y

Re: [ilugd] Firewall on linux server

2004-11-30 Thread Raj Shekhar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Friends, I have recently taken up a dedicated server for webhosting (redhat 9.0 with webmin as the control panel). I want to secure it from hackers etc. I think you mean you want to secure your server against cracker and script kiddies. This article should clear you

[ilugd] Firewall on linux server

2004-11-30 Thread mail
Dear Friends, I have recently taken up a dedicated server for webhosting (redhat 9.0 with webmin as the control panel). I want to secure it from hackers etc. One of mine friend told me to install some good firewall. Can u name one and tell the procedure to install them if it requires another pro

Re: [ilugd] Firewall implimentation

2004-01-23 Thread Alok Sinha
bles daemon. Do let me know if you face any problem in doing that. Warm Regards, Gurpreet Singh Sachdeva -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dks Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 8:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ilugd] Firewall impliment

RE: [ilugd] Firewall implimentation

2004-01-22 Thread Gurpreet Singh Sachdeva
Singh Sachdeva -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dks Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 8:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ilugd] Firewall implimentation Hi I want to implement Linux Firewall , Please provide best documentation for imp

[ilugd] Firewall implimentation

2004-01-22 Thread dks
Hi I want to implement Linux Firewall , Please provide best documentation for implimenatation of firewall. Thanks & Regards Dheerendar ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd