[wplug] Re: Firewall & NAT box

[mrabinovitz at attbi.com]

Leaf looks interesting, I think I will try this first. 

Thank you everyone for the information.

Mike 
> 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
> >
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