Samba and firewall in the same box?

[Sheldon Dubrowin]

Hey Bill,
	I have a cable modem and my router is a 486/sx 25 with 20MB of RAM.
I'm only running 2.0.38, but it does IP_Masq, Filters, and IP_Forwarding with
no problems.  I use to run samba, but stopped because of the lack of windows
boxes at home.  It sounds like your box should be fine, but serving up a lot
of files at once you may want to upgrade it.  I'd try it out with the current
configuration and upgrade if you feel you need the additional power.

	Shel

On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 02:14:06PM -0500, Bill Horne wrote:
> 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
> 
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