| 1 |
James wrote: |
| 2 |
|
| 3 |
>Hello, |
| 4 |
> |
| 5 |
>I have an old firewall (3 ether ports) on a amd K6 166MHz |
| 6 |
>machine. It ran OpenBSD just fine, but, it's long overdue for |
| 7 |
>a upgrade. I was considering Gentoo, but, with only 128 meg |
| 8 |
>of ram, this old, tired machine might not be up to it. |
| 9 |
> |
| 10 |
>Is there a solution using Gentoo? Maybe a binary installation, |
| 11 |
>specific for firewalls? I could use Debian(sarge) but |
| 12 |
>I'd rather use gentoo, or a gentoo derivative. I'm not |
| 13 |
>sure I'm ready to build everything on another machine |
| 14 |
>and transfer it over, but I could use distcc during |
| 15 |
>installation and to support maintenance compililations? |
| 16 |
> |
| 17 |
>An easy path to a (gentoo)firewall from an installation CD |
| 18 |
>would be keen. A firewall is all the machine has to do. |
| 19 |
> |
| 20 |
>Ideas and thoughts? |
| 21 |
> |
| 22 |
>James |
| 23 |
> |
| 24 |
> |
| 25 |
> |
| 26 |
Hi, |
| 27 |
Think you could check "home router" doc in Docs-section on w.g.o, but it |
| 28 |
seems you only need a kernel, iptables and optionally some |
| 29 |
firewall-config-system if you use such (shorewall comes in mind ;) |
| 30 |
Could use a minimal system after install + logger, cron, etc. Check |
| 31 |
iptables deps to see. |
| 32 |
Plus use distcc if too slow. |
| 33 |
HTH. Rumen |
Archives