Re: Senior Project

2001-02-23 Thread Sebastiaan
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Christoph Simon wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:20:03 +0100 (CET) > Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > The only thing with which I notice slow processor is when I ssh or telnet > > to it and read mail on it. So, if you do not need this, the machine serves >

Re: Senior Project

2001-02-22 Thread Christoph Simon
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:20:03 +0100 (CET) Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > The only thing with which I notice slow processor is when I ssh or telnet > to it and read mail on it. So, if you do not need this, the machine serves > well. Telnet and ssh send more or less one character per

Re: Senior Project

2001-02-22 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I have a 486DX with 12MB which works perfectly. It serves BIND, SSH, telnet, firewall (well, not well configured yet), ip-masq, smtp and pop3. Now it serves for three people to share their internet on an ADSL link. The only thing with which I notice slow processor is when I ssh or telnet to i

Re: Senior Project

2001-02-21 Thread David M. Anderson
There are two very good books available to help you: Robert L. Ziegler, "Linux Firewalls" (New Riders), and Wes Sonnenreich & Tom Yates, "Building Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls" (Wiley). The first covers the protocols in detail and provides comprehensive scripts. The second obviously also covers

Re: Senior Project

2001-02-21 Thread ktb
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 06:22:18PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I am doing my Senior Project shortly for my degree and have decided that I > would like to build a Linux firewall which also is configured for IP > Masquerading and DNS using Bind. I really just wanted ideas from s

Re: Senior Project

2001-02-21 Thread Robert L. Yelvington
100mhz should be enough to handle named requests as well as act as a firewall, but obviously 500 would definitely fit the bill...i've got a linux firewall running on an ancient P100 machine with 32mb of ram and it works like a champ! as far as pitfalls or gotchas to look out for, make a list of al