[Gloucs] New member

[Tim Ballam]

If you are running on s limited system another good option is running floppy
firewall.
 
You don't even need a hard disk...

Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: Guy Edwards [mailto:guy_j_edwards@hotpop.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 7:07 PM
To: MAILING LIST
Subject: Re: [Gloucs] New member


On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 07:31, Charlie Markwick wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Just to introduce myself as a I have just joined the list.

Hello,

There's a meeting coming up on the Sunday 20th October, Nympsfield
Village Hall from 2.00 pm. More details are on the website, hope you'll
be able to make it.

> I had never had anything to do with Linux/Unix up to about 6 month ago
when I got Telewest broadband and decided I didn't want to
> pay the significant cost of an MS solution firewall and router. Wanting a
software solution I discovered www.startuplinux.com and
> the love affair started. I have now used this solution for two local
companies using the same distro and back end novel servers
> running GroupWise.

Cool,

Don't know if it's any use, but you may also want to look at
http://www.smoothwall.org 
It doesn't have as anywhere near as many features (it's just a firewall
really) but it runs on hardware as low as a 486, 16mb RAM 120mb HDD and
might be of use in certain interesting situations. ipcops is a near
identical distribution based on the same code but with a less corporate
image on the web interface.

Laters,
Guy



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