Hi All,

I am going to set up a home network for my family home, I shall be using linux RH 7.2. I am going to install :

SMTP QMail,
Firewall iptables / ipchains,
Squid proxy server,
Samba file sharing,

Hardware that I have got is two win98 pc, Netgear hub 5 ports, 3 nic card also external modem.

Q. what other software should I install
Q. what hardware could I use for my server, min requirements

I would like to run KDE, one text editor help files (man pages) a shell etc...

Thanks Rich

As far as other software to install: RedHat will probably put on everything you need and more than you need... the install is rather clean that way.

Hardware requirements for the server: depends a little on your connection. If this were a Colo you would have to have more than a 486. I doubt it is, so whatever RH claims is the smallest machine that can handle RH will do fine as I keep installing RH on machines that are even slower. 3 Nics? is that between 3 machines? Two clients, one RH server, one modem(hopefully DSL, or cable, right?), one hub? If this is the case, and the modem isn't USB, then you'll need another NIC for the server to talk to the modem. Or are we talking about an old phone+dial-tone, ring-ring modem?

You're building a NAT basically, and most of the ones I've put together run on old 486s/Pentium 1s with less than 36 Megs of RAM. KDE may chug a bit on less than a P1 166-ish, but it just depends on how slim you install.

I always have a fight getting RH7.2 to install on less than 1 Gb, so make sure you've got that much disk handy.

Cheers,


Finegan

Hi finegan & Happy Xmas,

Thanks for your reply, for the NAT I'am now looking for a P200 pc, 32mbs or more and 1.5 Gbs HD from a pc market about £100/150. Also my modem its a standard v.92 D.U.C. the only down side is that using RH 7.2 you have too use the root pass word to dial out, unless that can be bypassed.
Any way I'll let you all know what I have done.

Thanks Rich