Re: ADSL problems with LAN hub

[Jerome Limozin <jerome@example.com>]

Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote:

> Eventually. I'm pretty new to Linux and the idea of installing a firewall
> and configuring ipchains sounds daunting. Is it that bad or does it just
> sound bad?
>

It is not that difficult. You can find scripts to help you configuring you
firewall. I recommend seawall (http://seawall.sourceforge.net), it does a
pretty good job to configure NAT and filtering, and it is easy to configure (I
had to tweak a little bit to make it even more secure).
The difficulty is to make sure it is secure, i.e. you need to change a lot of
things if for example you install a classic linux distribution. You may want to
try a trimmed down linux install, which fits on a floppy :
http://www.linuxrouter.org


>
> That plus the fact that the only cheap PC I have here is an old AMD 200MHz
> ... trying to install Linux on that would certainly be interesting. I'd also
> have to pay for two new LAN cards ^_^

I bought a used laptop for 30,000 yen, it does a perfect job for this purpose!
It is a pentium 90Mhz, and that's no problem at all. I'm sure you can find even
cheaper one (486...) - and you can find a brand new ethernet card for less than
1000 yen!

Jerome