[plug] Install tonight
J Michael Gilks
gilksjm at iinet.net.au
Wed Feb 26 23:50:32 WST 2003
No luck with getting things working. Hardware problems and finding how to use
iptables was too much.
Had forgotten that Smoothwall did routing and DNS, so will give that another
look.
Version 2.0 is looking pretty good. All the nice kernel stuff in a neat
package.
Love
Mike.
On Wednesday 26 Feb 2003 8:19 pm, Nathan D wrote:
> At 05:26 PM 26/02/2003 +0800, J Michael Gilks wrote:
> >Sorry. I rerplied last night but the message was refused.
> >My ADSL modem needs NIC to plug into. Seems more secure to have it plugged
> >into a firewall machine than a bare hub. Also the hub is getting full with
> >odd machines plugged in.
> >Love
> >Mike
> >
> >On Monday 24 Feb 2003 6:08 pm, Mike Holland wrote:
> > > On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, J Michael Gilks wrote:
> > > > 2 NIC's, one for ADSL using PPPOE and one to my personal network. If
> > > > this
> > >
> > > Folks,
> > > is there any reason for using two NICs here?
> > > Does it provide increased security with PPPoE ?
>
> Out of curiosity..... was a PLUGger able to meet your original request and
> provide a debian based firewall for you. Would a few details be available
> if possible?
>
> I've been a user of SmoothWall for sometime and do like its simplicity and
> have even customised it a bit. I have had ideas of something along the
> lines of a debian based version of SmoothWall for one day when I am really
> smart. Seems that DebWall is no longer around :(
>
>
> regards,
> Nathan D.
>
> Linux Conference Au Jan 22-25 2003
> http://conf.linux.org.au/ <-- You missed it :(
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