Samba and firewall in the same box?

[Jack Coats]

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
> 
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