Bill -
I've seen in more than one place that machines configured for firewall
duty (to include IP masquerading) should do that and NOTHING ELSE. Any
other daemons that run just represent an opportunity for the machine to
be cracked.
I'm going to be heading down a similar road soon and inasmuch as I would
LIKE to use the same system for NTP, DHCP, DNS, sendmail, etc. I'm going
to suck it up and not do any of that there.
If I were able, I'd like to set up the machine to boot from a burned CD,
with all config files etc. "hardcoded" into it - maybe even just setting
up a ramdisk for /var and taking out the hard drive.
- Jeff
Bill Ripley wrote:
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> I have a 486 box with no CD drive that I would like to set up for IP Masq.
> using a dial-up connection. I would like to also install and use Samba on
> the same box.
>
> Can I install a minimum Linux from floppy and then install IP Masq and Samba
> from a network connection? If so is there a How To somewhere that describes
> this process?
>
> Also, if I am using Ip Masq and dial-up how do I initiate the dial-up
> connection from a remote (LAN) station? Linux or Windows.
>
> TIA
>
> Bill
>
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