[plug] Re: trouble installing Redhat 9

[David Buddrige]

Nathan D writes: 

> On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:33:22 +0800, David Buddrige
> As suggested previously, for a quick and easy solution for a
> firewall/proxy/etc, Ipcop (or SmoothWall, m0n0wall, etc) has a very
> simple and straightforward setup that will get you connected in no
> time at all.  Download size is about 30Mb for Ipcop & SmoothWall and
> closer to 5Mb for m0n0wall.

might investigate this option... 

> 
>> Second priority is to get email downloading; but it is less of a priority
>> than the web [I can use webmail at a pinch].  
> Do you mean setting up a mail server or just getting access to email? 
> 

Just getting access to my email at my isp.  The squid will do for http web 
access, but there's probably a bit more mucking around to get access to the 
email - in the case where the machine onto which you want to download the 
email is _not_ the one that is actually connected directly to the net...