I run Freesco (www.freesco.org) from a floppy disk in a Pentium 60 w/ 64 MB
of ram, no Hard Drive, no CD.  It would run on a 386 w/ as little as 8MB of
ram.  The key thing is that Freesco will run more services on a beefier box.
It can be a simple firewall or you can add a webserver, print server, dialup
server (like RAS), timeserver, routing mode, bridge mode, or routing w/ a
DMZ.  It has tons of features in a little package.  If you want you can
clone it to the hard drive to give more room for the webserver and to speed
boot time.  Ask if you need help.  I also will have some freebie NICs at the
next meeting that will work great in this project.

Brian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kurt Kessler" <kessler2k@yahoo.com>

> 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 <chuckx@cold-sun.com> 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 -