On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 11:57, Peter Long wrote: > I would like to thank everyone for their advice. I have considered all > your advice and I have decided to go with Debian Stable and to limit the > functionality of the machine to firewall/gateway, mail-server and maybe > web-server. Since it is only a PII 350Mhz I think that is enough work > for it. SpamAssassin pegs the poor processor. :) > > I have the makings of another machine with a AMD Athlon 1.1Mhz processor > that I will turn into a desktop that will sit behind the firewall. I am > not sure what disto will end-up on that machine. For now I just need to > find some reliable PC133 RAM for the motherboard. > > Daniel: I went to http://people.debian.org/~blade/ and I am concerned > with the reason behind the pass phrase on the zip file! Why would I want > to install possibly compromised software on a machine that is supposed > to be my highly secure firewall? I think I will stick with the regular > iso's. I already have half of them anyway. > > Thanks again for all the advice. > > -- > Peter Long > You probably have your heart set on Debian by now, but if you really want to try something different that is extremely different, but makes a wonderful server (and is very secure), then try out OpenBSD.
The install is easier than Debian, but not as easy as RH. Still it makes for a very secure server with some amazing built-in functionality. The firewall (pf) is well documented and very powerful. IP Sec runs natively and also easy to implement for secure communications. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Overview Good Luck - Jon Carnes -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
