My home network is behind a box that runs an ipchains firewall (built
using the online firewall design tool available here:
http://www.linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/), Squid and squidGuard. The
box has 2 NICs, one connected to my DSL line and the other to an
Ethernet hub. I have 4 workstations on the LAN and have had all 4
surfing the net without a noticeable degradation in performance.
My firewall/Squid/squidGuard box is an old Compaq Prolinea 486/66 with
40Mb ram and about 1.2Gb of HD.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ozz
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 11:15 AM
To: Morris Maynard; Squidguard Org
Subject: Re: Newbie help with SquidGuard
On Wednesday 12 September 2001 12:05, Morris Maynard wrote:
>
> I have done this for several homes. I have succeeded with Pentium-166,
32
> Mb and 10Gb drive space, which is the kind of computer a lot of people
have
> sitting around gathering dust so I can do the job for very little in
parts,
> just time. For my own home system, however, I have Pentium-300, 64Mb
and 20
> Gb drive space, with RedHat 7.1. If you swear you never want anything
to do
> with X-Windows, you can get away with less, but this system compiles
things
> reasonably quickly, has enough hard drive space to be a media server
(I've
> recorded the best of my CD collection onto it, currently at 3.5 Gb),
and
> handles the Internet traffic with no problem.
Thanks.
I am looking to use a lower spec. box than that if possible, especially
regarding HDD space. I do not need it to be a server in any other
respect.
It will not be running X. It will be PURELY a parental filter. I'm not
even
bothered about caching. I just want a minimal box to filter traffic.
What would you recommend for this?
Regards,
Ozz.
