Ok, I've got an old 486 sitting in my closet that I got from my dad a while ago, intending to set it up as a linux based server/bridging firewall. It has 2 NICs so I was hoping to set up some routing software and whatnot to allow me to run a webserver and mail server on the 486 while still being able to use games and whatnot that need to act accept incoming connections on my main box. My prefered setup for dealing with incoming connections on eth0 is to have a list of ports to block connections to and a list of ports to allow incomming connections to, and what IP on the internal network those requests should be directed to (or to direct it to a server that's running localy). Traffic to the internet from eth1 (the internal network) should sent out to the WAN, prefreably without a proxy. Oh, and I do only have one internal IP. Suggestions on what programs would be needed to do this stuff and hints on setting things up? I currently have Storm installed on it, but I have A copy on Mandrake SNF and could get and burn any other Distro off the net.
