On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Howard Lowndes wrote: > > Every LUG that I visit has some stuff on using an old 486 as firewall. > > Some claim that you can do it without a hard drive even. So I thought > > a 350 MB disk with 32 MB Ram should do the job. I have to host 2 files > > I think this concept is becoming a myth unless you want a REALLY > minimalist gateway box with almost bugger all firewalling and a POTS > modem, and are prepared to gut the kernel extensively. I do know that > 486s won't drive ISDN cards reliably (been there, done that) and if you do > any extensive firewalling or proxying then its also a no-brainer.
As long as the services themselves aren't running on the firewall (and we don't do that, now, do we?) proxying and firewalling is no problems for a 486. We've got a DX2/66 running our firewall here, and it's got a firewall script with about 40 rules - lots of port forwarding, a transparent squid proxy, and NAT. Load average never gets a digit other than 0 in it - unless I'm ssh'd in to do something - then it gets to about 0.4. (I type fast). -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <disclaimer.h> Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
