On Wednesday 30 May 2007 05:48:32 Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 17:23 -0400, > > Michael.Coll-Barth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I have built a small network at home for the family using five windows > > boxes and one Linux box. Currently, everything plugs into a DSL Modem > > for Internet connectivity. > > > > I would like to change this to have a Linux box ( Pentium II ) > > residential serve as a gateway to provide firewall and proxy services. > > I suppose that it will also need to behave as a DHCP server? > > Only if you want it to. If you already have a DHCP server that you're > happy with, you can use that, instead. And if your new Linux box sits > between it and the rest of the LAN, you can set it up as a DHCP relay. > > > Will it need a second NIC installed that will attach to a hub for the > > other boxes? > > Yes, if you want it to act as a firewall. It can't do that unless it's > in between the LAN and the rest of the world. > > Other functions like being a server or proxy don't require it, they can > just be on the same network. > > > In addition, it would be nice to have another Linux box (Pentium III) > > acting as a web/db/file server. I plan to use Apache and Oracle for > > this. > > You can run a server on the same machine, but it's generally a bad idea > to make a firewall dual-purpose. An exploit in one of the other > services could be used to kill the firewall. Stand-alone firewalls are > the most secure way to do it (whether they're a computer or a dedicated > hardware box). > > > Is Samba still what I should use to store Windows files? > > Yes. > > > Is there a mature IIS 6 'clone' or drop in replacement out there? > > Depends what you mean by IIS, it's a suite of things. Apache, is in my > opinion, a better webserver that IIS is. I haven't compared FTP > servers, nor other things that IIS can do. > > -- > (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's > important to the thread.) > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists. Sorry to jump in so late but what DSL set up have you got. You might also like to have a look at smoothwall. Its designed to turn an old box into a dedicated fire wall. With 3 network cards you get the choice of running Internet accessible servers on their own sub net, well away from your internal network. www.smoothwall.org (I think) -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of parliment with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240
