[Wolves] Dual-green Smoothwall

Ron Wellsted wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk
Wed Aug 27 18:45:00 2003


On Wednesday 27 August 2003 6:02 pm, Old Dan wrote:
> > Take a look at Mandrake MNF8.2, This needs a slightly bigger box than
> > smoothy but will do everything you want.
> > The free download version is the same as the paid for supported version,
> > supports multiple VPNS, and upto  6 network cards in any config you want.
>
> Cheers Ron - I've just downloaded the ISO & written it to CD.
>
> Would an old Pentium 200MHz w/ 128MB & 1GB HD do, do you think?  That's
> the machine smoothie is on.  I think I may have read somewhere that they
> recommend a 300MHz machine.
>
> If it would I'll transfer the firewall tomorrow.

I run it on a P200/64M system with a 1G HDD.  It copes OK.  I have it 
installed on various machines and a faster CPU makes the admin faster.  On a 
P200 just be patient.

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Ron Wellsted
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