Hello All,

Shame on my, I've been away from my Slackbox for a bit. Now that I have a bit more time, I'd like to get back into it. I recently upgraded to a new machine so I decided to put Slackware on my now "old" machine.

So with that above mentioned, I'd like to install Freerock first. Last time I did, it took a bit (close to a few hours). Is that normal? The machine's speed was 800 Mhz. This machine I'm putting Slackware on is 1Ghz. This just kind of struck me as odd.

My main question though is this: I'd like to start a simple project in Slackware just to re-familiarize myself with the general concepts. Would SSH be a good start?

Thanks for your help.

Haven't tried Freerock, so I can't say.

Um, what do you mean by "project"? SSH is already implemented and works quite well on Slackware. ;-)

Damn, have to re-edu-ma-cate myself on SSH; I must have been thinking of something different.

My idea of a project: I'd like to put that machine on the LAN and turn it into some sort of server (I've been thinking about a webserver) but it seems that would be over my head.

That isn't too difficult. I've got my Slackware box set up as my firewall/router, as a WiFi access point for my laptop (see my tutorial if you're interested), running a web server, and hosting a source code versioning system for my projects.

I'd be glad to answer any questions you have.

Cool setup you have there! I haven't even thought of a firewall/router; I'd like to tackle that on the weekend. Can you point me to the right direction?

Good tutorial by the way, thanks.

The 50,000 foot ( 15.240 metre) view:
1. Install two network cards
2. Connect one network card to your DSL/Cable modem.
3. Connect the other network card to your PC.
4. Configure IP tables for firewall/NAT.
5. Configure dhcpd to assign network addresses to your PC.

The devil is in the details, of course. Much of the information can be gleaned from my tutorial, so you may be able to get it working if you ignore the WiFi stuff. There are probably better tutorials out there though. Google is your friend. ;-)

Thanks for your help, that actually doesn't sound that bad after all. I'll check over your tutorial and, of course, Google.

Thanks for the direction.