[linux-help] Re: Internet Gateway help

["David Cooper" <dcooper15@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks for all the help guys.  Right now for my gateway I don't want to
learn that much about linux.  I have my main computer that will be
running linux in the future that is when I will fully start learning it.
I figure then I would start with something like mandrake or redhat.
Something that does most things for you but still give you the control I
need.  For my current project I will check out fraizer and see what it
does.  Thanks again for the help.

DC
 

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Subject: [linux-help] Re: Internet Gateway help


If your primary concern is functionality, Frazierwall will do what you
need pretty painlessly.  You will need two NICs.
If the educational experience is more important, you'll learn more by
installing Linux on a hard drive, and going through all the steps
involved.
You _can_ get by with just one NIC, but you lose any security advantages
that a firewall would provide, and it's a pain to set up.  It's worth
the
investement in another $5 network card to avoid this :)
And it will work fine with Windows XP, or any other OS that uses IP.

-- Jonathan


> First I would like to introduce myself.  My name is David Cooper.  I
> have visited your meetings in the past (about 1 year ago) and I was
> impressed with the knowledge of the group.  I was just checking linux
> out back then and was more curious than trying to convert.  Well  the
> time has come to convert.  But this will be a slow process for me.  Ok
> on to my question.
>
> As my first step to moving to linux I need to create a gateway for my
> network.  Right now my server runs XP and is the gateway both I would
> like to change this to a more secure gateway.  So here is what I want
> to do.  I came upon an old computer that should work just fine.  The
> specs are:
> P90
> 64mb ram
> 4mb video
> 1 gb harddrive
> Idealy I want this computer to run with only the floppy and no hard
> drive (would this be reliable?).  But if I have to put a hard drive in
> it this is no problem.  This computer will be the only thing between
my
> cable modem and the rest of the network.  My main questions are:
> What distribution would work best?
> Would the floppy be accessed a lot or is all the files stored in RAM?
> Is this even feasible?
> 2 network cards or one?
> Would this work with all other computers running Win XP?
>
> Details on how to get this going would be best but I don't expect
them.
> If someone could maybe answer the questions above and just point me in
> the right direction that would be a great help in itself.  The reason
I
> am starting off with this is the fact that I think this will be the
> hardest part to set up and if I can get through this the rest should
be
> gravy.  Thanks for any help anyone can give me.
>
>
> David Cooper
> DC
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