Shawn wrote: >On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 10:38:38 -0500 >Rick Meyerhoff <rick at eworld3.net> wrote: > > > >>I don't have a box to dedicate as a firewall and I need to avoid >>spending money right now. Maybe I'm being "penny wise and pound >>foolish". I actually would like to set up such a box for better >>security, learning and of course, the "cool" factor. >> >> >> > >Screw the "coolness factor." That's not why I run a firewall on a dedicated machine. > >If I had a spare older machine, I'd give it to you. Look around to see if you can find an older machine laying around from someone you know or here on the list. > > > yeah no doubt, these days you *need* a firewall. especially if you have a dedicated internet connection. I am running smoothwall 2.0beta5 on a pentium 166 with no problem at all. I have an old 486 dx4 lying around that you can have if you want it. I have never run smoothwall on it but people from the smoothwall mailing list have said it works just fine. I am also sure that it would run any non-X distro fairly well so you are not locked into smoothwall if you dont want to (I just find that it is a supremely easy firewall to set up, configure and forget about) _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list