Hi John et al, On Saturday 22 September 2001 12:39 pm, John Stoffel wrote:
Andy> As part of the Lancaster MA project, there is a 486 machine with Andy> 8 MB of memory which we would like to make into a firewall. I'm Andy> seeking recommendations on how best to do this. Are we memory Andy> limited, or can this work, and if so, how?
LRP is the way to go, it's a firewall on a floppy disk. I'm running it at home and it's really nice.
I saw several other recommendations for LRP, so I think we'll give that a try.
What speed internet link are you talking about here? I might be able to scrounge more memory and a P90-130 for you instead. Maybe.
The machine has a 56K modem in it for the Internet connection. It will be used for light surfing and e-mail (as I understand it). There will be 2 or 3 other machines on the net with it (yeah, quite a bottleneck...).
Andy> Can we put at least a minimal installation of something on this Andy> machine, or are we going to have to explore the single floppy Andy> firewall solutions such as the Linux Router project?
It's not hard to do an LRP setup, and it's much more secure. You have a problem, you reboot. The media is physically write protected.
Andy> Finally, is there somebody who would like to volunteer for Andy> Saturday 9/29 to explicitly help with solving this problem?
Ummm... I might be able to help with this.
John, that would be great if you were able to help out with this. Please let me know for sure. Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org