Samba and firewall in the same box?

[Jerry Feldman]

This is very doable. IP masquerade is easy to set up. Plenty of good 
FAQs on the net for this. 

On 3 Feb 00, at 14:14, 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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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Associate Director
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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