RE: [Sheflug] Linux Proxy & Mail Server

["Simon Instone" <simon [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If I can get a 54g wireless lan card working I'd buy a router with DCHP
& firewall built in and do away with the need for any software.  I've
got a Belkin F5D7010 and haven't had much look with it.

>From what I can make out, I can't run ipcop cause it's a distribution in
it's own right not additional software I can put on Mandrake.  Likewise,
the kyzo stuff is a distro.

Cheers

Simon


http://www.turn2linux.com



-----Original Message-----
From: shef-lug-admin [at] list.sheflug.org.uk
[mailto:shef-lug-admin [at] list.sheflug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Morris, David
(Allvac, UK)
Sent: 30 July 2003 16:02
To: shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk
Subject: RE: [Sheflug] Linux Proxy & Mail Server



> 
> At the moment I've got an XP Pro machine with a broadband
> connection to the Internet and I'm running Proxy+ which 
> enables other users on the network to connect to the Internet 
> and it also downloads there emails and acts as an SMTP server.
> 
> I'm trying to find what the Linux alternatives are.  If
> anyone's got any ideas I'd appreciate it.  I'm currently 
> running Mandrake 9.1.

Proxy: www.squid-cache.org - comes with most (if not all) distros.
Include something like squidguard for site blacklisting if you want.

Email: take yer pick... I like qmail or courier. Some swear by sendmail.
There are numerous others.

If you look at something like IPCop firewall (www.ipcop.org), it
includes squid. I don't know whether anyone has done a mail add-on.
You'd be better off using a mail server then inside your firewall.

Is your broadband USB or Ethernet terminated?

-- 
David


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