[Tfug] network question

[Angus Scott-Fleming]

On 11 Nov 2003 at 22:00, Josh Gregorio  wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I may be setting up a windows 2000 network soon. I'd rather not have any 
> win2k boxes connected directly to the internet. Can anyone recommend a 
> good book on using Linux as a firewall/router? It would probably run on 
> Mandrake 9.1 or Slackware 9.1, because I already have those distros.

Allow me to recommend a dedicated firewall distro, look at 
IPcop http://www.ipcop.org/ ... runs fine on machines from 
486-class w 20mb RAM on up.  I build IPcop mini-boxes for 
clients for around $350 but if you have an old PC you can do 
it yourself for much less.

Angus

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