[plug] firewalls on 486

[mickey]

Gavin Corfield wrote:
I personally just installed SmoothWall on my old 486 (after reading of 
its existence here on the PLUG mailing list), and I'd have to say, as a 
firewall, its brilliant. The install was a breeze (download a tiny 23meg 
.iso CD Image and burn it, (or mount it via loopback i guess) ), and 
detected my big old 3Com Etherlink III no worries. The distribution 
includes easy to use masquerading, firewalling, most other -ing you'd 
want really, and best of all can be accessed via web browser (it runs 
its own httpd), because you dont really want to bother with a monitor 
and the whole shazam. You can probably get smaller more efficient server 
(there distributions that fit on one or two floppies for example), but 
for my 486 (8megs of RAM, 210meg HDD) it seems perfect.

A formidable task, bah! to that. :), any dummy can do it (especially if 
I managed).

http://www.smoothwall.net

for the .iso image as well as easy to understand documentation (PDF format).

Good luck, (but you wont need it).

Mikey.





> Hi all,
> 
> Thanks for views on email clients.  I'm looking at setting up a firewall
> on a 486 box.  Being a 486 I'm told I dont have pci slots but can get
> older NIC's.
> 
> I appreciate that I have given no details but I want to have an idea of
> how formidable a task setting this system up is likely to be.  
> 
> gavin
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