[olug] debain firewall

[Nate Rotschafer]

You can download the 2.4 boot floopies (only the first two needed for a net 
install most likely) from any debian mirror...mine included...

Nate


>From: Carl Lundstedt <clundst at unlserve.unl.edu>
>Reply-To: olug at olug.org
>To: olug at olug.org
>Subject: Re: [olug] debain firewall
>Date: 05 Jun 2002 15:31:24 -0400
>
> >
> > Carl, did you do a net install?  which disks do I need?  I was RTFM but
> > was not sure on how the network install worked since my driver disk
> > didn't work.  I know the 2 cards in the machine are using the 8139too
> > module.
>Eric,
>I did a cd install with the Potato ISOs (2.2 kernel) I got off of
>linuxiso.org.  Once I had the cd's burned I followed the Install readmes
>to get boot and root floppies and went from there (this is from memory,
>but it was basically some dd commands to get root and boot).  I couldn't
>do a net install on the laptop since I was doing all this in my
>"workspace" at home and didn't have a net connection for the computer.
>
>I'm not sure how I'd do all this if I wanted the 2.4 kernel (for all the
>2.4 IP goodies) besides installing 2.2. and recompiling the 2.4 on
>machine (which will probably bring some headaches I'm sure).
>
>For my router/fileserver/firewall at home I just did a custom Mandrake
>install.  No-X, samba, no internet clients (save ftp for updates) custom
>iptable scripts I found on the OLUG site. I tried a couple of different
>options for this machine.  SMB-gateway server (that left NO options open
>to the user including no option to install SAMBA), RH7.2 (ugh I'm not
>sure what they did to RH, but it ain't pretty.  RH didn't want to play
>nice with my CDROM drive) and Mandrake single network firewall (didn't
>have everything I wanted) I finally just went with Mandrake custom.
>People say Mandrake isn't a server distro which is probably true on
>large scale projects, but for what I do it's been fine.
>
>Again, Good Luck
>Carl Lundstedt
>UNL
>
>
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"Only those who think know, but those wo know always think."
Nate Rotschafer
Millard West High School
Omaha, NE

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