[Sheflug] Re: Slackware8.0

[Richard Ibbotson <nospam [at] sheflug.co.uk>]

Elliot

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

You can argue forever with this kind of thing.  To make it easy get 
hold of a scrap 486 and network it with your computer that you use 
with KDE and GNOME.  Any network card is fine.  Maplins do some good 
ones for not much

The choice of software for the firewall box is endless.  You could 
try E-Smith or Smoothwall 0.99 beta - not the old one - or Pizza Box 
which is on the front cover of the August issue of Linux Format.  
There's also the Mandrake 8.0 firewall on the front cover of the 
September issue of LXF.

After that you get round to configuring Sendmail or Exim or Postfix 
or Qmail to send mail followed by Fetchmail to collect mail and then 
Procmail to send mail from your net facing box to your workstation.  
Then there's fine tuning the net facing box to finish off.  To make 
sure that it's kind of secure.

Thanks


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Richard

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