building a firewall

[crash3m at trelane.net]

Whats wrong with GUI @ 75Mhz?  I run fluxbox on a 66Mhz so I can have several xterms open on the 
same screen.  Granted all I do on that box is basic text editing but it works...

ML

On Fri, 26 Jul 2002 21:49:18 -0500
Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at opus1.com> wrote:

>  -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kurt Kessler [mailto:kessler2k at yahoo.com]
> 
> > I know this is like asking "which distro is best?",
> > but, I have Mandrake Secure Network Firewall...
> 
> I played with it a couple of months ago, and my conclusion was "not ready
> for prime time".  Not yet at least.  They have a GUI configuration tool
> which sets everything up, but doesn't give you control over everything you
> should have.
> 
> Besides which, don't even THINK of running a GUI on a 75MHz machine.
> 
> You will want a fairly "tight" distribution, current specs say minimum
> 100MHz for live NAT firewall that's doing nothing else.
> 
> That said, if you go with RedHat, the HOWTOs make it dead simple.  Do a
> server install, select as little as possible, then go in and clean out what
> you don't need.  Consider seriously compiling the kernel specifically for
> that system, possibly doing the configure and compile on another box (I'm
> not clear on that process myself, but I know it can be done).
> 
> Gentoo will probably be recommended to you, but you'll be all year compiling
> it, and the HOWTOs generally address RedHat, then either Debian or
> Slackwaer, with a nod to Mandrake.  For a beginner, I would go with the one
> that has the most introductory info.
> 
>