building a firewall

[Kurt Kessler]

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 at 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.
> 
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