Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-06-01 Thread Adam Hardy
Douglas A. Tutty on 30/05/09 14:19, wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:18:56PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: Jan Willem Stumpel writes: Csanyi Pal wrote: So: can one install on it say a Debian GNU/Linux Lenny? Mind that it is a "headless" device. Everything has to be done through ssh (or local tel

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:18:56PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Jan Willem Stumpel writes: > > Csanyi Pal wrote: > >> So: can one install on it say a Debian GNU/Linux Lenny? > > > > Mind that it is a "headless" device. Everything has to be done > > through ssh (or local telnet). It has no cd-rom dr

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:18:56PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Jan Willem Stumpel writes: > > > Csanyi Pal wrote: > > > >> So: can one install on it say a Debian GNU/Linux Lenny? > > > > Mind that it is a "headless" device. Everything has to be done > > through ssh (or local telnet). It has no cd

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-29 Thread Csanyi Pal
Jan Willem Stumpel writes: > Csanyi Pal wrote: > >> So: can one install on it say a Debian GNU/Linux Lenny? > > Mind that it is a "headless" device. Everything has to be done > through ssh (or local telnet). It has no cd-rom drive, keyboard, > or monitor. But it is just a Debian system (for powe

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,28.May.09, 21:50:26, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > I also do not quite understand why you should want to use > Lenny, rather than Etch, on a server. Sure, you can still use etch, but next February the security support will end and you have to upgrade to lenny anyway. Regards, Andre

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-28 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Csanyi Pal wrote: > Yes, with Debian Etch, but not with Debian Lenny! > So: can one install on it say a Debian GNU/Linux Lenny? I suppose you can, although I didn't try it. I think you can install anything you want; I heavily customised mine (in fact I am no longer using any of the Bubba-specif

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-28 Thread Muzer
Csanyi Pal wrote: Alex Samad writes: On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 08:35:02AM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: Jan Willem Stumpel writes: Csanyi Pal wrote: What is the recommended new hardware for firewall/gateway or for a web, mail, file & printer server at a small home networ

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-28 Thread Csanyi Pal
Alex Samad writes: > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 08:35:02AM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> Jan Willem Stumpel writes: >> >> > Csanyi Pal wrote: >> > >> >> What is the recommended new hardware for firewall/gateway or >> >> for a web, mail, file & printer server at a small home network? >> >> >> >> Any

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 08:35:02AM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Jan Willem Stumpel writes: > > > Csanyi Pal wrote: > > > >> What is the recommended new hardware for firewall/gateway or > >> for a web, mail, file & printer server at a small home network? > >> > >> Any advices will be appreciated! >

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-27 Thread Csanyi Pal
Jan Willem Stumpel writes: > Csanyi Pal wrote: > >> What is the recommended new hardware for firewall/gateway or >> for a web, mail, file & printer server at a small home network? >> >> Any advices will be appreciated! > > I am now using a "Bubba 2", made by a Swedish company: > > http://excito.

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-26 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Csanyi Pal wrote: > What is the recommended new hardware for firewall/gateway or > for a web, mail, file & printer server at a small home network? > > Any advices will be appreciated! I am now using a "Bubba 2", made by a Swedish company: http://excito.com/bubba/products/about-bubba.html It ru

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-23 Thread Adam Hardy
Kelly Clowers on 22/05/09 20:56, wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 07:24, Victor Padro wrote: You can get a Pentium 4 for less than $200 on ebay. I use a Pentium 4 HT, 512MB RAM, 40GB HDD with Pfsense(FreeBSD) as my home firewall/router, and it's very reliable. I would much rather use an Athlon

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-22 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 07:24, Victor Padro wrote: > > > You can get a Pentium 4 for less than $200 on ebay. > I use a Pentium 4 HT, 512MB RAM, 40GB HDD with Pfsense(FreeBSD) as my home > firewall/router, and it's very reliable. I would much rather use an Athlon XP or a PIII than a P4 energy hog.

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-22 Thread Daryl Styrk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 09:31:14PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Hi, > > I have at my home a small network: > firewall/gateway: Pentium II Class PC box with 64 MB RAM, 5,1 GB HDD > server : Pentium IV Class PC box with 2 GB RAM, 60 GB HDD > des

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-22 Thread Victor Padro
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 09:31:14PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > > I have at my home a small network: > > firewall/gateway: Pentium II Class PC box with 64 MB RAM, 5,1 GB HDD > > server : Pentium IV Class PC box with 2 GB RAM, 60 G

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 09:31:14PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > I have at my home a small network: > firewall/gateway: Pentium II Class PC box with 64 MB RAM, 5,1 GB HDD > server : Pentium IV Class PC box with 2 GB RAM, 60 GB HDD > desktop : Pentium IV Class PC box with 2 GB RAM, 2

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-21 Thread Mark Shroyer
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 09:31:14PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > I have at my home a small network: > firewall/gateway: Pentium II Class PC box with 64 MB RAM, 5,1 GB HDD > server : Pentium IV Class PC box with 2 GB RAM, 60 GB HDD > desktop : Pentium IV Class PC box with 2 GB RAM, 2

What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-21 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hi, I have at my home a small network: firewall/gateway: Pentium II Class PC box with 64 MB RAM, 5,1 GB HDD server : Pentium IV Class PC box with 2 GB RAM, 60 GB HDD desktop : Pentium IV Class PC box with 2 GB RAM, 2 * 320 GB HDD On all these PC boxes run Debian GNU/Linux: fire

Re: Debian Firewall/Gateway

2000-11-19 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 06:41:19PM -0500, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: :ever if there was something in there, I wouldn't notice it. Is there a :way to setup IPChains and IPMasquerading to allow any and every type of :traffic ? I can provide the suicide pill, though I don't know why resolving is broken

Re: Debian Firewall/Gateway

2000-11-19 Thread Robin Collins
S . Salman Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>Anyone have any ideas as to why name resolution/lookup might not work ? How did you configure DNS on this second machine? I'm far from a firewall expert :) but all I did was to put my ISP's DNS server IPs in /etc/resolv.conf on my internal system an