Server as firewall and proxy.
Hi all,
I would like to use an old PC as firewall and, hopefully as proxy. Is there someone who knows: - Linux (w/out X) booting from a CD (and running also from CD) - saving the scripts on a floppy - using USB ram for saving data. - use no HD (the system must be always on and so must be very "low consumption" and therefore w/out HD and Monitor) ??? Bye. |
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Hi nx5000,
thank you for your reply. I've appreciated very much the web references to possible solutions. But the same things (more or less...) I can find doing some googling. What I hoped from a forum were your "personal" opinions and "experiences"... I made up my mind: I must at start limit myself to firewall and packet filtering leaving the proxy problem to a more powerful PC, acting like a web server (with Apache?) on the private side of my home net. But for almost a noob like me who "ne fait pas plus du sky ...pour mon physique", also a firewall can be a problem... I want to use a 300 MHz processor with a CDROM, a floppy, a USB Ram acting as a ram disk (256 Mb is enough?). The configuration files for iptables or the other Linux config files must be on a floppy and so the system on the CD must the told to search its config files on the floppy, which, when running, can be set read-only (if necessary). Bye. |
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