[Hudlug] Blueyonder Broadband

[Chris Lindley]

On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 17:22, Rob Shakir wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> You may want to try a distro such as IP COP  this is a distro that is developed to be a router /firewall. There are other distros like this such as Smoothwall but IMHO IPCop is the best. IPCop can be found at: http://www.ipcop.org/. Also check out the Smoothwall site at http://www.smoothwall.org/. I think you will find these distros to be a little better than RH 7.2 at the task you have in mind. 
> 
> I hope this helps :) 


Or alternativel, get hold of an old box!  (I have an old 486 without any
fans or harddrives)

Get hold of a single floppy distro router/firewall.

I use Freesco (FREEcisCO)!  wwww.freesco.org. Although there are quite a
few out there!

then you need two NIC.  One to plug into the cable/modem/adsl thingie,
and the other into your hub.

Freesco has it's own DNS server, so for the other machines you just use
this as the gateway (it does NAT!) and the DNS server!

Freesco has a seriously easy menu to set it up.  And it does DHCP etc...

It's really pretty cool.  I've been running one for 3 years now, and the
only time I've altered it, was when I switched it from a dialup modem to
a Cable modem.  (oh yes it will do dial-on-demand as well!!!)

Give it a go, you won't regret it!!!

Cheers
Chris

> 
> On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 17:06, Chris Wood wrote:
> > On Friday 06 September 2002 16:39 pm, you wrote:
> > >
> > > Be very careful with RH and security.  You will get hacked unless you
> > > have all the latest security patches installed.  The last I heard, you
> > > had to pay for redhatnetwork to get security updates.
> > 
> > We used RedHat boxen extensively at my last company as web servers, and 
> > never had any problem getting hold of security patches, without signing up 
> > to RHN.
> > 
> > Take a look at http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/errata/
> > 
> > Of course it helped that we were on various security mailing lists so that 
> > we were getting regular updates. Redhat even provide you with details of 
> > these at http://www.redhat.com/support/alerts/
> > 
> > I'd recommend subscribing to bugtraq.
> > 
> > HTH,
> > 
> > C.
> > 
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> Shak - Rob Shakir
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