On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 08:24:56AM +1100, Doug Foskey wrote: > My question for others, > however is: Who in the major providers, will do DOV, as when I spoke > to them, no-one knew anything about it. (The small providers are too > expensive usually).
http://www.traverse.com.au/Australia/html/isps.html On Sat, 2002-01-05 at 20:27, James wrote: >> Is there any good beginners documentation on doing this? Can someone >> advise me on what is the best setup > > To get to the internet from a private network we have to masquerade > (masquerade howto). For debian there is a simple package .... snip My thoughts here are why reinvent the wheel by using specially setting up (and locking down) a general distribution, when there are a number specific firewall distributions around. Sure you learn more with a DIY setup, but these installs can often lack the integration that comes with the firewall distro's. I am currently shying away from the floppy based firewalls because they a often based upon a different design philosophy than the general distributions. So the Linux skills learnt of the desktop and other "big systems" are not immediately transferable. So configuration can be troublesome and often exacerbate by the limited space available on a floppy disk. My current favourite firewall distro is SmoothWall, I have found that it runs happily on a 486 with 12 megs of RAM and a 100 meg hard disk. The SmoothWall's good remote administration, it is possible to totally dispense with the monitor and keyboard after installation. (spray painting the box black is optional) From: http://www.traverse.com.au/Australia/html/smoothwall.html What is SmoothWall? SmoothWall is customised Linux distribution that builds a highly reliable and secure firewall on just about any PC hardware. SmoothWall has an easy to use Web interface that allows administrator access using a web browser such as Netscape. Another great thing about SmoothWall is that you don't need to know anything about Linux (or Unix) to install and run it. SmoothWall offers all the advantages of a Linux firewall - speed, security, reliability and cost without the disadvantages - complexity, training and experience. http://www.smoothwall.org/ Regards Mark -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
