I know this is a LUG, but use OpenBSD for your firewall, especially if you're a beginner. OpenBSD is designed from the ground up to be a secure distro and installation is easy if you're not worried about X. Plus, since so many residential networkers use it there's a ton of documentation out there to get you going. Kurt Kessler wrote: >Ok, one other thing I thought about asking but then >hesitated a bit... > >I know this is like asking "which distro is best?", >but, I have Mandrake Secure Network Firewall, it says >its a firewall and includes all the NIDS stuff also. >OR, I have a rather nice tutorial on building my own >NIDS with Red Hat 7.3, mySQL and php. Are there any >other preconfigured ones out there. I was thinking >that I might learn a bit more by learing what it >is/does, and THEN building my own from scratch. I'm >sure the Mandrake is quite a simple install, just >wanted to check on other's suggestions for others. >Thanks > >--- chuckx wrote: > >>On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 05:37:17PM -0700, Kurt >>Kessler wrote: >> >>>Is a 75mhz box w/ 72mb suitable for a firewall? >>> >>That's more than enough power for a firewall. It >>doesn't take much >>proccessing power to filter a residential internet >>connection, be it >>broadband or dial-up. >> >>Good luck. >> >>-- >>- chuckx | Charles K. Lee II - >>- http://www.cold-sun.com - >>-- >> >> >>majordomo@kclug.org >>Enter without the quotes in body of message >> > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better >http://health.yahoo.com > > >