Thanks for that Garry.

Do you know of any firewalls that run from floppy?

I am reluctant to become a Debiant, although I am a wizz at vi.

Cheers

Wayne

> garry <garbuck@tpg.com.au> plug@plug.linux.org.au Re: [plug] firewall softwareDate: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 07:29:55 +0800
>Reply-To: plug@plug.linux.org.au
>
>The hw should easily cope with firewall duties.. With smoothwall certainly,  
>and most prob with esmith. Would recomend these two for ease of maintainance 
>as they have browser based admin. Not used esmith, but been meaning to have a 
>look for interest. Think it is more of an all in one office server than 
>simply a firewall though. Maybe less secure for this??
>
>If you want to roll your own and learn heaps more about linux and admin, do a 
>debian box.. Makes it dead simple to keep up to date once it is set up. But 
>then you won't get the simple browser interface, and you'll need to learn 
>vi/emacs or similar, and config files.. 
>
>You could even play with a floppy disk firewall if that is your want.
>
>Choices.
>
>HTH
>
>Garry.
>
>On Friday 28 December 2001 07:04 am, Wayne Vovil wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I initially decided to use Smoothwall 0.98(?) then received 0.99 and was
>> going to set this up over Xmas. Like almost everything over Xmas, it didn't
>> get done (except for eating, drinking and being Merry).
>>
>> Going through some cds last night I noticed that I also have e-smith and a
>> stripped down Mandrake 8.0, which is used for firewalls.
>>
>> I plan to use a P90, 40MB, 1GB HDD, CD-ROM machine for this purpose (also
>> has 2 * 3.5 fdd, 1 * 5.25 fdd etc.
>>
>> Anyone not too exhausted from Xmas to comment?
>>
>> Burp!
>>
>> Wayne
>>
>>
>>
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