[wplug] Re: Firewall & NAT box

[Mike Sussman]

Mike,

I have been using the Dachstein LEAF distribution as a firewall and NAT
box for several months, and the earlier Eigerstein distribution before that.
I was running on an old 486 box and am now running on a Pentium 60 with
32 MB RAM, no hard drive, 2 3com NICs.  It runs like a charm and I
have had no trouble with it connecting to adelphia.net.

There is a very active LEAF mailling list and it is extremely well supported
there.

The newest LEAF distribution is called Bering (they are named after
mountains) and uses the 2.4 kernel.

You should give them a try.

> From: mrabinovitz at attbi.com
> To: <wplug at wplug.org>
> Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 14:28:36 +0000
> Subject: [wplug] Firewall & NAT box.
> Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
>
> Hello,
>
> Long time lurker, first time poster....
>
> I have a older pentium class computer with a couple of NIC's that I would
> like to set up to do NAT and act as a firewall for a cable internet
> connection. I was wondering what a good distro to use for this task would
> be.
>
> The computer has the following specs:
> Pentium 75
> 32MB RAM
> 500MB Hard Drive
> 2 x 3com509B NICs
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>