[Sheflug] Slackware8.0

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] barriebremner.com>]

>>>>> "Elliott" == Elliott Frost <elliot.frost [at] btinternet.com> writes:

    Elliott> Hi all Well i got slackware 8.0 installed ok.  Had to
    Elliott> change the mouse protocol in XF86Config to Microsoft.
    Elliott> Samba is configured ok.  Secure shell works fine.  KDE
    Elliott> and Gnome look amazing.

    Elliott> I want to setup a mail server, firewall and proxy server
    Elliott> for the internet for the network.  Primarily to see if
    Elliott> this improves speed.  Anybody tried it with a modem ?
    Elliott> any suggestions ?

I've got all that sitting behind a 56k modem. Probably a touch
overkill :-)

The mailserver is probably not worth your time, unless of course you
want to learn how to set it all up - which is interesting.

Squid can make quite a difference over a normal Netscape cache, and
seems to be a lot easier on disk space to boot.

Firewalls are another learning experience. Do it to learn, and do it
if you're paranoid :-)

Cheers.

Baz.
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Barrie J. Bremner		OpenPGP public key ID: 5164F553
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