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I do this now. It works fine even on my old 466/66. I am getting DSL in soon too, and my hard disk is grinding like I fed it coffee beans or something, so it needs to be replaced anyway. I am planning on upgrading it to another (but still slow) machine. In a commercial setup, I would NEVER put a firewall on anything except a separate box. Even using the LRP distribution for that would be fine. It needs to boot from a floppy, and runs from RAM. Once it is configured it is small and sturdy. Good enough for a commercial setup. At home, I don't want multiple machines running all the time, so one server is appropriate for me, and it sounds like for you too. ... Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Horne <bhorne at banet.net> To: <discuss at Blu.Org> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 1:14 PM Subject: Samba and firewall in the same box? > Thanks for reading this: I'd appreciate opinions. > > My son has just started using email, and my wife has been kicking > me off the machine regularly, so it's time to put in an IPCHAINS > box and let everybody use the net at the same time. > > Please tell me if I can do this in the same box that I now use > for Samba: a 486 DX-2/66 with 16 MB of ram. If needed, I can > swap in a Cyrix "all in one" board with 32 MB and a Pentium class > chip. > > I'd like to keep the Samba server, and add dial-on-demand PPP > (soon to be replaced by ADSL), with all the other machines going > through this one to get to the net. > > Opinions? > > Thank you in advance. > > Bill Horne > > - > Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the > message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored). - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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