On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 04:03:50PM -0500, mountaincable.net wrote: > I've picked up an ORION 486DLC-33 w/386 BIOS that I want to set up as > a firewall. Newer distr's of linux have min requirements above my system. > What distr. should I use (Debian has been recommended)? Is there an > outline somewhere of how to go about setting up a firewall and what > packages I need to install to run one?
Is this to be a dial-up router? If so, I'd say to look at: http://mpsdr.unx.nu/MINI/ This thing runs off of a single 3.5" floppy - doesn't even use the hard drive. I've got it running here on a 486DX2/66 with 16 megs RAM, but it's advertised as being able to run on anything down to a 386 with 8 megs RAM. Once I had it downloaded and onto a floppy, it took all of about 10 minutes to setup. It does demand dialing, IP Masq, and cacheing DNS. I like it. A lot. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" ICQ# 12934898 | "As far from Redmond as possible!" '91 GS500E | Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow.
